A Doctor's Prescription for More AI in Medicine

Dr. Topol is a paid adviser to two AI health companies, Verily Life Sciences, a Silicon Valley-based company that used to be part of Google, and Voxel Cloud, a China-based company. A lot of consumers and even health-care professionals are wary of artificial intelligence. They see it as something that depersonalizes medicine. I had the same kind of bias going into this field. I spent a few years of research to figure out where we could take AI.