Robert M. Wachter

For now, if you want to ask a question regarding your health like ‘what’s the best treatment for my my arthritis?’ or ‘I have a new headache today. What does it mean?’ you’re going to get a better answer if you’re using an advanced AI model and it knows a lot about your past history,

• Wachter said
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I believe them because I think they’ve got a strong business interest in keeping their word,... But the risk is not zero; it’s just very small, and you really need to decide whether it’s worth it.”

• said Wachter, who is also author of “A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What that Means for Our Future.”
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We shouldn't be comparing them to some mythical state of perfection (which clearly the current system does not achieve) but to the alternative,

• Wachter said in an email
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You’re combining a general anti-regulatory, pro-business administration with very close ties to an enormous amount of wealth to a segment of society that wants us to go fast.”

• Robert Wachter, author of “A Giant Leap,” a book on AI and medicine, told The Post
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GenAI can probably begin to integrate these inputs but for now, a test of a written, and often artificially 'clean' clinical case scenario is not the same as going into an ER and dealing with the chaos,

• Wachter said
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The question is how closely this replicates real life, and the answer is moderately well but not perfectly,

• Wachter wrote in an email
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