How will AI shape the future of medicine?

Whether it's CT scans, MRI, ultrasound, we can see AI do at least as well, if not better, than expert physicians.

It's Monday, January 22nd, and today, just like every day, is Science Friday.

I'm sci-fri-producer Shoshana Bucksbaum.

There's a bounty of new research showing that artificial intelligence might improve medicine.

It's better at reading mammograms and radiologists.

And there's even a study

showing that AI chatbots might be helpful in making diagnoses for complex disorders, ones that are

missed by doctors. Iroflato and guest host Sophie Bushwick talk with author and cardiologist

Eric Topol about the role of AI in medicine, its potential downsides, and take

listener calls.

Artificial intelligence, AI, has crept into so many different corners of society, especially

medicine.

Yeah.

While people have been fearful of what nefarious uses could be fall AI, I have been fascinated

about new studies showing the benefits of AI in medicine, like being better at reading mammograms

than radiologists, how AI can predict and diagnose diseases by analyzing, analyzing the retina.

Wow.

And we're going to talk about that.

There's even research showing that AI chatbots might be helpful in making diagnoses of rare disorders, people using them themselves, and ones that they are even missed by doctors.

But of course, none of this comes without trade-offs about security, privacy,

cost, and the potential for AI to make medical mistakes. Yes, that's of course. And our next

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