It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Each year, WNYC's

Local News Division hosts a health convening with support from the Alfred P. Sloan

Foundation. The convening has typically been an opportunity for health care experts and

practitioners to inform WNYC's health reporting in an off-the-air briefing and interaction. Well,

this year we're bringing it on to the air as everyone on all sides of medicine,

patients, health professionals, hospital administrators, researchers, businesses of various

types, equity advocates, and others are trying to figure out what the opportunities and risks

are of deploying AI as the technology develops. In a little while, we'll invite you to call in listeners

with your AI in medicine questions and experiences. Some of the exciting developments in the field,

AI's role in diagnosing diseases early and discovering the building blocks for medication.

We'll get into some really interesting and hope-inspiring specifics

and advances in certain areas. Patient billing is another rising use. There are also concerns

we'll get into related to patient privacy, algorithm bias, and when AI gets things wrong, as in so

many fields, threatens human employment as well.

Let me introduce our guests, Sidotha Mukerjee, MD, associate professor of medicine at Columbia

University, cancer researcher, and author of several books, most recently The Song of the Cell,

an exploration of medicine and the

new human published in 2022. He was here for a book interview for that then, and you may know

him from the Pulitzer Prize-winning earlier book about cancer called The Emperor of All Malities.

Also, Dr. Shinjini Kundu is here. She has the unusual combination of being a physician and a computer

scientist at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in radiology with a PhD and artificial

intelligence as well. Her breakthrough led to recognition as a Forbes 30 under 30 in health care, a young

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