Bob Wachter

There's no way they can keep up with the speed of innovation here.

So I think we've got a lot of work to do to figure out the regulatory environment.

But in the short term, I think a relatively light regulatory touch is the right way to go.

So that's what Bob Wachter has been thinking about, how to lay out a plan for a full-on merger between AI and healthcare.

And let's say that merger happens.

What should we expect?

What are some of the most wonderful benefits to us, the users of the healthcare system?

I went back to Pierre Elias to ask about that.

How do you see the role of the physician changing?

And I would assume this means that medical education should be changing quite a bit too, yes?

I think for now, it would be a mistake to take too much of clinical reasoning and the facts of medicine off the plates of trainees.

That's Bob Wachter again.

Because I think you could easily enter a death spiral where the AI is better than the doctor because the doctors are getting worse.

You're talking about de-skilling now, yes?

I'm talking about de-skilling.

Is the de-skilling argument, which is that...

You know, if physicians continue to rely on technologies like AI, they will lose the ability or the skill to actually do what they used to do.

Is that an argument being made by the physician incumbency to scare off AI?

Partly, but not completely.

You know, there's good de-skilling and bad de-skilling.