What Robert Wachter thinks about AI alignment
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 readingThe rise of AI in healthcare will lead to the dissemination of specific encoded values at scale.
Their wordsAs AI-enabled decision support becomes more robust, more persuasive, and perhaps even agentic, it will quietly encode one set of values and disseminate it at scale.
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