Dr. Sanjay Gupta

What could this be?

Should I be worried?

Honestly, I get it.

AI is quickly becoming part of everyday life, and now it's becoming a part of healthcare as well.

Patients are using it at home.

Doctors are using it in hospitals and clinics.

This is happening.

But I think the big question is this.

When it comes to your health, how much should you actually trust AI?

Can you trust it?

Can chatbots help you ask better questions, understand your symptoms, maybe make faster decisions?

Or could it lead you in the wrong direction, make you panic, or maybe reassure you when it shouldn't, or even prevent you from getting care when you actually need it?

Well, today I'm talking to Dr. Bob Wachter from the University of California, San Francisco.

He's the author of a new book called A Giant Leap, How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.

We're going to talk about what AI gets right, where it could go wrong, and how to use these tools safely without over-relying on them.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and this is Chasing Life.

I feel like every sidebar conversation in hospitals now among my colleagues and medical students is around AI.

And I kept thinking someone like you is going to write a book like this, but then I thought maybe they won't because by the time they write it and it gets published, it may already be outdated.

Things seem to be moving that fast.

So I'm just curious, before we talk about the specifics, how did you approach that part of things?