Why doctors’ diagnostic jobs are safe from the AI bot machine

Google's chief health officer says she understands the limitations when it comes to real medicine.
Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas.

“I have to say as a doc sometimes: ‘Oh my, there’s this new stethoscope in my toolbox called a large language model, and it’s going to do a lot of amazing things.’ But it’s not going to replace doctors — I believe it’s a tool in the toolbox.”

This is Dr Karen DeSalvo, who as Google’s chief health officer, can be considered the real Dr Google.