Casey Newton

Me too.

There sure is, Casey.

Today, we are going to have a conversation with a doctor about AI and medicine, because this is an area where there has just been a lot happening recently, and we needed someone qualified to come in and debrief us.

This has been a huge change in my recent visits to doctors, which is that I now am having this series of conversations leading up to the visit with AI systems about what is going on.

I am coming armed with what I believe to be good information about what is going on, and that allows me to have a different, more elevated conversation with the doctor.

And this is not just me.

People are increasingly turning to chatbots for medical information.

According to some recent data, approximately a third of Americans report turning to AI for healthcare information.

And companies are racing to respond to that demand by making better tools that are specifically designed for use in healthcare.

So to help us make sense of the landscape for AI and medicine and healthcare, we've invited back to the show one of our favorite doctors, Adam Rodman.

He is an internal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

Yes.

So let's fork over our co-pays and bring in Dr. Adam Rodman.

You're at least a doctor of the show.

You are our primary care physician.

So when we last talked to you in late 2024, I think this was a moment where the medical community was starting to say, wait a minute, these AI models are getting pretty good at things like diagnostics.

But I think a lot of the field was still kind of in wait-and-see mode.

Now, almost two years later, we have a lot of new tools and a lot of new studies about the use of AI in medicine.

So...

Just catch us up on what has been going on with AI in medicine for the last, call it, year and a half.