Robert Wachter

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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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AI and jobs 5

A healthcare system could exist where AI provides basic preventive and urgent care while humans provide more complex clinical and emotional care.
AI's diagnostic performance on curated facts does not prove it can replace doctors who are experts at creating problem representations.

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innovation 4

A general antipathy toward AI might lead to a slowdown in the implementation of healthcare tools that can currently save lives and ease suffering.
The growing backlash against AI may profoundly affect the pace of AI implementation in medicine.

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optimism 2

The AI we currently have is sufficient to address many important clinical problems.
The new AI will be good for health and healthcare because the technology is remarkable and the status quo is lacking.

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