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Wachter described his sixth book, A Giant Leap, as an exploration of how AI can transform healthcare and what that transformation will mean for the future.
Within a few minutes of speaking with Wachter, you get a sense of how his brain works. He is drawn to categorical sorting and operational competence, all of which has been particularly useful in his l...
— Episode: 661. Can A.I. Save Your Life?
Episode: 661. Can A.I. Save Your Life?
Wachter described his sixth book, A Giant Leap, as an exploration of how AI can transform healthcare and what that transformation will mean for the future.
Within a few minutes of speaking with Wachter, you get a sense of how his brain works. He is drawn to categorical sorting and operational competence, all of which has been particularly useful in his latest extracurricular endeavor. It's a book, his sixth, called A Giant Leap, how AI is transforming health care and what that means for our future.
We have not embraced it as a mechanism to make care better and safer and less expensive. You call your book a giant leap.
I want to understand this concept of the giant leap. My sense is you're arguing that health care has failed to take advantage of technological progress to the degree that most industries have and that you're hoping that AI in all its many forms will help us kind of leap over that sluggish period into a next better phase.