JAMA+ AI Conversations

Is it enough for AI to be accurate, or are we mistaking performance for impact? Does AI change clinician behavior, improve patient decisions, or simply create a convincing performance of intelligence? Yun Liu, PhD, research scientist at Google Research, speaks with JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, about what is behind the curtain in these AI systems.

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Every patient has a story, but in modern health care that story is buried across thousands of notes, lab results, and fragmented records. Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD, of Stanford University Department of Medicine joins JAMA Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, to explore how researchers are building AI systems that can read and understand a patient's full medical history in seconds.

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Chatting With AI and the Electronic Health Record

Join JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, for a conversation about the practical implementation of trustworthy clinical AI. Guests Emily Tat, MD, and Peter Brodeur, MD, discuss ARISE, a research network focused on the real-world effects of AI on clinical care.

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Designing Trustworthy Clinical AI

As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes population health decisions, evidence and accuracy matter. In this episode of JAMA+ AI Conversations, Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, speaks with Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Editor of JAMA Health Forum, about how AI is entering health policy, when it is ready for use, and what rigorous, policy-focused AI research is most needed.

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AI at the Policy Table

Why can signals that appear consistent across many studies still reflect shared bias; how do sibling comparisons help recalibrate cumulative evidence; and what AI-enabled approaches can add to large-scale evidence integration? Viktor H. Ahlqvist, PhD, from the Karolinska Institute joins JAMA and JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, to discuss why automated drug safety surveillance during pregnancy is urgently needed and how AI and computation can strengthen or undermine causal inference.

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