Casey Newton

Is that something you're worried about for like recent medical school graduates where maybe they would have had to hold all this stuff in their brains a few years ago and now they can just ask a chatbot and maybe that's going to erode some of their skills as a physician?

Yeah, I mean, for what it's worth, I want my doctors to be using AI models.

I want them to be consulting the hive mind before they weigh in on my specific condition.

It doesn't threaten me as a patient to know that they are using open evidence or something similar.

But I'm guessing for a lot of people, that would seem strange.

And maybe there are some physicians who don't advertise how much they're using AI because their patients might think less of them.

Do you think that's happening?

Would the AI models be better if we were less protective of privacy for medical data?

I think they should train on it.

I mean, obviously, that'd be a huge illegal violation of privacy.

But it would also make the AI doctors better.

Yeah, much better.

And I think, you know, a lot of people would be sort of willing to make that trade-off.

So I at least think there should be a little checkbox when you go to the doctor that says, like, I'm okay having my personal health data used to train AI models.

Exactly.

Well, that's a good place to leave it.

Dr. Adam Rodman, thanks so much for coming back and keep us posted on what is going on in medicine.

Thanks, Doc.

When we come back, we'll talk about Taki, an LLM trained only on data from before 1930.

Well, Casey, usually on this show, we are talking about the future, but today we are going to take a trip back to the past, specifically to the year 1930.