When I was a young bonnie lad of just 16, I was lucky enough to score a meeting with Sandy Napel, PhD at Stanford University’s Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL). I demonstrated a prototype algorithm that automatically identified the position and course of arteries on CT scans. It was the first shot in a nearly decade-long academic research career that included early publications on using neural networks (the precursor to today’s …

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I was at a conference of physician executives and physician founders recently, and there were many stimulating conversations. The idea that AI could see us as a threat and eventually destroy us came up in various forms, often as a half-serious joke. Half-serious jokes are serious concerns. Indeed, astrophysicist Martin Rees predicted that humanity had a 50 percent chance of destroying itself this century due to technological advances and threats, …

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