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Who Sets the Rules for AI in Medicine? w/ Dr. John Whyte, CEO, American Medical Association

Jul 10, 2026
22:19

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Eighty-one percent of physicians are already using AI in practice, more than double the rate from just three years ago. The tools are moving faster than the rules, and nobody has agreed on who gets to write them.

Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, joins hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll to discuss why the medical community needs to lead the conversation on AI guardrails rather than wait for Washington to catch up, and why the most urgent regulatory question right now involves AI chatbots in mental health, where one in six American adults are already using them with no meaningful oversight in place.

🎙️⚕️ABOUT DR. JOHN WHYTE
John J. Whyte, MD, MPH is the CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association, the nation's largest physician organization. Prior to the AMA, he served as Chief Medical Officer at WebMD, Director of Professional Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Chief Medical Expert and VP of Health and Medical Education at Discovery Channel, and held a role at CMS where he helped formalize Medicare's national coverage decision process. He is a board-certified internist with an MD from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, residency training at Duke University Medical Center, and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University. He has also served as a health services research fellow at Stanford University and is the author of five best-selling books.

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