Casey Newton

Do you think that is a good practice or is that just making people way too worried about things that maybe they don't need to be worried about?

Yeah.

What about the integrations like ChatGPT Health, which lets you sort of convert your Apple Watch or Fitbit data into something that ChatGPT can analyze?

There's also a new version of ChatGPT for clinical use called ChatGPT for Clinicians.

Are any of these integrations or projects more promising in your view?

See, I think this is a case where, like, this is sort of rent-seeking behavior on the part of doctors or doctor organizations.

Like...

When I have gotten refills for prescriptions, I meet with a doctor for, you know, six to eight minutes.

They say, how's it working?

I say, great.

They say, are you having any side effects?

I say, no.

They say, okay, I'll write you a refill.

And the whole process just seems totally designed to, like, get me to pay up for another doctor visit and not give me any actual good medical advice.

So if I can play devil's advocate, like, do you think that they're...

the sort of resistance to programs like this are motivated by just wanting to keep people coming to the doctor and paying for those visits?

No, for some, they make you actually do an office visit and maybe they want you to take your blood pressure again or whatever.

Do you think that if AI meaningfully extends life expectancy for people, it will be because of new AI-discovered drugs or because of changes to routine healthcare that are made more efficient or more accurate by AI?

So there's a lot of worry right now about sort of AI in schools, in education, some of the cognitive atrophy that people are worried about.

Oh, if we start using AI to do all of our work, we're not going to have the basic skills.