PHOENIX—Artificial intelligence and its use in healthcare is a frontier that is both promising and potentially perilous. At ACG 2025, Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, the director of health services research at Cedars-Sinai, in Los Angeles, sat down with GEN to discuss the current state of AI and the role he hopes it will play in healthcare over the next decade.
“AI is not going to replace doctors, but doctors who use AI will replace doctors who don’'t. That much we know,” he said. “We’re always going to need doctors. We need other humans talking to human patients, making eye contact, engaging around the wisdom of healthcare delivery.”
Computer systems find “meaningful patterns within the chaos” that humans cannot. However, he said, the practice of medicine is at its heart a “humanistic science,” not computer science or engineering.
—GEN Staff