Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on real world of doctors, developers, patients, and policymakers
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The passage I read at the top is from the book’s prologue.
When Carey, Zak, and I wrote the book, we could only speculate how generative AI would be used in healthcare because GPT-4 hadn’t yet been released. It wasn’t yet available to the very people we thought would be most affected by it. And while we felt strongly that this new form of AI would have the potential to transform medicine, it was such a different kind of technology for the world, and no one had a user’s manual for this thing to explain how to use it effectively and also how to use it safely.
So we thought it would be important to give healthcare professionals and leaders a framing to