Dr. Steven Novella

Do you know how to use AI to get reliable information, to use it to search information more quickly?

But then you still go through the process of digging down to actual reliable resources and

finding out what both sides have to say and get to a point where you're like, okay, I kind of have an idea what this issue is now.

Or are you being intellectually lazy, which I think laziness is a baseline of the human condition.

Not really as a criticism, it is a criticism, but I mean, we evolved that way, right?

We evolved to be efficient and lazy is efficient.

And so we always are trying to get to the result as quickly as possible and expending as little energy as possible.

But in today's world, you just can't do that because it's too complicated.

There are people who are trying to deceive you.

There are people who have already been deceived and they're passing it forward.

There's so many things.

You just can't survive in the world today being intellectually lazy.

But that's the baseline still.

And so AI is just a really big excuse to be lazy, man.

Just have AI do the thinking for you, have it do whatever for you.

And so that's my worry about it, is that it will make people even more intellectually lazy, which is death.

That certainly is a risk.

And that's, again, where the answer to that is institutional.

And that means having the physicians at academic institutions who are teaching the next generation of doctors, teaching them how to think.

I do, again, my bias coming from Yale is that we do a good job of that.