AI is everywhere right now. In your inbox, your EHR, your hospital's strategic plan, and probably your last three CME credits. But most of what physicians hear about AI is either hype or fear. We think you deserve something better.

In this special Best of AI episode, Dr. Graham Walker revisits three conversations that generated the most messages, DMs, and forwarded links from How I Doctor listeners, plus a Physician Spotlight that has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with why physicians need support right now.

These guests don't agree on everything. But together they map a path that every physician needs to understand: where AI actually works today, where it falls short, and what's coming next.

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Yann LeCun is the ACM Turing Award Laureate, former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and co-founder of AMI, Advanced Machine Intelligence. Alex LeBrun is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of NABLA, and CEO of AMI.

Listen to Move Over LLMS! AI Legends Yann LeCun and Alex LeBrun Debut AMI Labs' Bold Ambitions for World Models in Healthcare

Dr. Bob Wachter is Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, author of The Digital Doctor, and author of the new book A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What It Means for Our Future.

Listen to What Doctors Get Wrong About AI with Robert Wachter, MD

Dr. David Rhew is an infectious disease physician and Global Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, working at the intersection of the world's largest health systems and its largest technology companies.

Listen to Where AI in Medicine Is Actually Headed, with Microsoft’s CMO David Rhew

What You'll Learn

Yann LeCun & Alex LeBrun

Why large language models have a fundamental ceiling and what world models are designed to do instead
Why 80% accuracy is considered excellent in research and completely unusable in clinical practice
What it actually took to build AI tools physicians trust and why every assumption they walked in with was wrong

Dr. Bob Wachter

Why the healthcare system is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI, and uniquely capable of wasting those gains on a faster hamster wheel
The deskilling death spiral: what happens when the AI becomes more reliable than the human checking its work
What part of medicine Bob believes we should never hand to AI, and why

Dr. David Rhew

Why AI in medicine isn't one thing, it's a portfolio of tools, and conflating them leads physicians to trust the wrong ones
How retinal screening AI is finding advanced diabetic disease in people who were told everything was fine months earlier
Why the most important physician skill in 2030 will have nothing to do with clinical knowledge

Dr. Stefanie Simmons

The spheres of control, influence, and acceptance and why physicians chronically misestimate which is which
Why 43 state medical boards have now removed stigmatizing mental health questions, and how to check if yours is one of them

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