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Tech Life

Can we trust AI in health?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We hear from experts on the pros and cons of using AI in the healthcare world. Plus ex-Minecraft YouTuber Stampy, AKA Joseph Garrett, on turning to game design. But are console games getting too expensive? And the students from India whose innovative renewable energy tech has won a prestigious award.

This week's Tech Life was presented by Shiona McCallum and produced by Imran Rahman-Jones. Our editor is Monica Soriano.

(Image: A stethoscope with a small screen on it, shown a person's heart rate at 76 BPM. A hand hold it to a person's chest.)

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:10.8

I'm Amal Rajin. Join me on my new podcast for in-depth conversations with pioneers and

0:16.0

innovators, talking about the trends and ideas that could help shape and change our future.

0:21.5

We are going to be digital citizens of this AI world, whether we like it or not.

0:26.2

From declining birth rates to disinformation online, can they solve the world's biggest challenges?

0:32.0

What I would love to do is go to the Chancellor and say radically cut the taxes of those with children.

0:37.3

Radical with me, Amul Rajin.

0:39.3

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:41.2

Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service with me, Shona McCallum.

0:46.3

Today, the benefits of using AI in healthcare.

0:49.9

AI stethoscopes can mitigate for the absence of that type of technology in lower middle

0:54.2

income countries. Using them really just needs you to have a smartphone and a degree of connectivity.

0:59.7

And what to be wary about?

1:01.5

Large language models are being hailed as, you know, the future of clinical decision support.

1:07.6

But they're remarkably vulnerable to information that has nothing to do with

1:13.0

health at all. Plus the ex-utuber Stampy best known for his Minecraft videos on designing games

1:19.9

based around online communities. And I speak to two students from India whose award-winning energy

1:26.3

project harnesses the power of the oceans.

1:57.5

Now if you were listening to last week's tech life, you would have heard Paula from the UK who got in touch with us to say she was monitoring her heart health using a heart rate monitor and AI.

2:02.6

She also had a couple of questions for us, so we decided to put them to an expert. More from Paula a little later, but first here's Dr Patrick Bachtiger, who's based at the Health Impact Lab at Imperial College London.

2:11.6

He works as an NHS doctor, but also researches AI.

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