Robert Wachter
Person on 2 sites
Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF who writes about patient safety, hospital medicine and technology in healthcare. Author of A Giant…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-10-21 -
18 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The rise of AI in healthcare will lead to the dissemination of specific encoded values at scale. (opens korrents.com)
“As AI-enabled decision support becomes more robust, more persuasive, and perhaps even agentic, it will quietly encode one set of values and disseminate it at scale.”
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AI's primary impact on healthcare costs will be through its influence on clinical decisions. (opens korrents.com)
“But AI's real impact on costs will come through its effect on clinical decisions.”
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The debate over healthcare rationing in the U.S. will become politicized as AI tradeoffs become explicit. (opens korrents.com)
“As these tradeoffs become explicit, we can expect a vigorous debate about rationing. And in the U.S., we can guarantee it will be politicized.”
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The rise of AI in healthcare will lead to the dissemination of specific encoded values at scale. (opens korrents.com)