What Robert Wachter thinks about innovation
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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4 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Robert Wachter has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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
- 4 months earlier
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Our readingThe growing backlash against AI may profoundly affect the pace of AI implementation in medicine.
Their wordsBut there's no firewall between healthcare and the rest of our lives, and so the growing backlash may profoundly affect the pace of AI implementation in medicine.
↗Robert Wachterrobertwachter.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsthe growth of AI in healthcare will ultimately track with the technology's transformative capabilities.
↗Robert Wachterrobertwachter.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsin healthcare at least, today's AI boon is built on too solid a foundation to sink entirely.
↗Robert Wachterrobertwachter.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece