Dr. Adam Rodman

So no, I'm not.

Like medicine and science is just kind of messy and there are always those stories about like –

you know, we discover something amazing and makes it like penicillin.

But even penicillin took like 20 years to get into human beings.

So no, I think we will see AI discover drugs.

I think it's just the benefits from AI are going to be like the benefits from medicine.

It'll be a lot less exciting than people think, but still important.

Yes.

So that is the biggest worry that I actually have about sort of the short to medium term is de-skilling of the workforce.

We have some evidence.

There was a sort of scary study last year from Poland on a trial where they gave doctors, not a language model, but a polyp detecting technology.

And they looked at their ability to detect polyps, so potentially cancerous lesions in the colon before using it, and then after using it for three months.

And when not using it, their ability to detect polyps dropped by six percentage points.

So these are skilled doctors.

Using a technology and they lose six absolute percentage points of their ability to detect potentially cancer in three months.

And then imagine that you're learning to do it for the first time.

Will you ever gain those skills?

So like at Harvard Medical School, like this is – and medical schools I think everywhere.

This is our big worry, which is how will this –

affect us to train the new generation of doctors.