Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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this, but then I thought maybe they won't because by the time they write it and it gets published, it may already be outdated.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?

Does that reduction of cognitive burden on healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, whoever's using the AI,

What is that worth?

I mean, does that lead to better care for patients?

Ultimately, are we a healthier society because of it?

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I think these are the kinds of questions.

So we're very much in the experimentation phase.

I mean, in terms of AI in healthcare, you're optimistic about what this could mean.

So there are some core principles which I really want to talk about that I think you've applied in this book.

But let me just ask you personally, how are you using AI now as a physician?

You know, there seems to be this tension between the trust in the platform and the expectations.

And if a autonomous vehicle were to get in some sort of accident, that would feel like a significant blow to the autonomous vehicle industry.

Despite the fact that humans get in accidents all the time, when a machine does it, it feels different.

We have high expectations and low trust.

How do you sort of weigh that when you're, you know, maybe making medical decisions or recommendations based on an AI platform?