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Toward a test of medical AI superintelligence

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By Ethan Goh, David Wu Verified, Chase Walton, Liam McCoy, Anastasia Perez, Laura Wegner, Fateme Nateghi Haredasht, Luyang Luo, Thomas Buckley Verified, Austin Schoeffler, Peter G. Brodeur, John Havlik, Yun Liu, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Mike Schaekermann, John S. Rumsfeld, Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Paxton Maeder-York, karan singhal, David Gunning, Bon Ku, Haider Warraich, Shantanu Nundy, Vishnu Ravi, Arnold Milstein, Jason Hom, Kevin A. Schulman, Pranav Rajpurkar, Arjun K. Manrai, Robert Wachter, Eric Jeffrey Topol, Eric J Horvitz, Adam Rodman, Jonathan Chen, Kathleen Lacar, Kameron C. Black
| Nature Verified
Researchers urgently need a rigorous, task-based framework to define and measure medical AI ‘superintelligence’, because existing benchmarks are misleading and insufficient.
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Bot or Not? What’s Uniquely Human in Doctor-Patient Trust

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By Robert Wachter
| Medscape Verified
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi. I’m Bob Wachter. I’m professor and chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future. Trust is crucial on both the intake and the output side.
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Bullish Optimism on AI and the Physician’s Role in Medicine

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By Robert Harrington, Robert Wachter
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Recorded March 13, 2026. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Robert A. Harrington, MD: Hi. This is Bob Harrington, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, on theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology. We have a great opportunity today to be joined by a friend and colleague from the University of California, San Francsico (UCSF), Bob Wachter, to talk about his latest book on AI in healthcare, called A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.
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