Dr. Eric Topol

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Today, Explained · Paging Dr. ChatBot · 26 Oct 2025 podcast

And so you can use AI if you deliberately

want to help reduce inequities and try to do everything possible to interrogate a model about potential bias.

I am worried about that.

And we have a long history of not using technology to help people who need it the most.

So many things we could have done with technology we haven't done.

Is this going to be the time when we finally wake up and say it's much better to give everyone these capabilities to reduce the burden that we have on the medical system, if you call it a system, to help care for patients?

So other countries will get ahead of us on that, JQ.

I mean, I think that's the issue is that that's where we should be is making a level for all people.

To me, that's the only way that we should be using AI and making sure that the people who would benefit the most are getting it the most.

But we're not in a very good structure framework for that.

I hope we'll finally see the light.

It is.

I would be the first to acknowledge that.

But remember, we have 12 million errors a year, diagnostic errors that are serious with 800,000 people dying or getting disabled.

That's a real problem.

We need to fix that.

And we have lots of ways to get to much higher levels of accuracy.

So for those who are concerned about AI making mistakes, well, guess what?

We've got a lot of mistakes right now that can be improved.

I have tremendous optimism.

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