What Robert Wachter thinks about AGI
Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF who writes about patient safety, hospital medicine and technology in healthcare. Author of A Giant Leap (2026). Writes Pattern Recognition, a newsletter on healthcare AI.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Robert Wachter has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingHealthcare may be the industry where AI has the greatest positive impact on the average person.
Their wordsConversely, healthcare may be the industry where AI has the greatest positive impact on the average person - meaning that AI executives should focus more on talking about it, while talking less about insider brass rings like achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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