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Silicon Valley is building medical answers. Medicine needs judgment

Fast Company Tech Vikram Bhaskaran June 17, 2026
Silicon Valley is building medical answers. Medicine needs judgment
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# The Real Problem With AI Doctors: Speed Isn't the Hard Part Tech companies are betting billions that AI can solve healthcare by answering medical questions faster and cheaper, but they're missing what actually makes medicine difficult—the judgment calls doctors make based on years of experience, gut feelings about when something is seriously wrong, and knowing when textbook answers don't apply to a specific patient. Medicine isn't a lookup problem that AI can solve; it's about wisdom and context that no computer has learned to replicate. If the industry builds its future around this misunderstanding, patients could end up with fast answers that miss what truly matters.

Billions of venture dollars are flowing into a single bet: If you can generate a medically sophisticated answer fast enough, you have solved something meaningful in healthcare. The pitch is seductive. Doctors are under extreme time pressure, patients wait months, and large language models (LLMs) can

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