Hey there, welcome to Chasing Life. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You notice a weird symptom. Maybe you have a rash or a headache that won't go away, some strange stomach pain even. And before you call your doctor, you type it into chat GPT or another AI tool. 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 health care 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 Watchter 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.

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back, up the stairs for something, ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

Mom, what's for dinner? Chop, sizzle, done.

Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

So it's phones down, forks up.

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

Hello.

When was the last time you stopped and listened to your body?

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Go on, tune in.

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