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Season 1Episode 367

'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care

Mar 5, 2026
25:51

Episode Description


We talk with physician and writer Bob Wachter about why he’s cautiously optimistic that artificial intelligence will usher in a ‘golden age’ of medicine — and the questions he still has about these powerful new tools.


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