What Robert Wachter thinks about politics
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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Their wordsEven if not a single new model were released in the next few years, it would take that much time for healthcare to build sensible local governance, to agree on and adopt reasonable regulations, to work through the politics and changes in the payment system, to retool our training programs, and to see which of the hundreds of AI companies vying for a place in healthcare's ecosystem survive.
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