What Robert Wachter thinks about behavioural science

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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. 15 Sept 2026

   Our readingA general antipathy toward AI might lead to a slowdown in the implementation of healthcare tools that can currently save lives and ease suffering.

   Their wordsWhat I hope doesn't happen is that a general antipathy toward AI and AI companies bleeds into a slowdown in the implementation of healthcare tools that can - today - save lives, ease suffering, and improve the lot of both patients and clinicians.

   ↗Robert Wachterrobertwachter.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece