Is the evolution of artificial intelligence a threat to medical practitioners? Far from it, argues Jack Stockert, M.D., in Stat. Rather, A.I. will ease physicians' ever-growing clerical burden, including electronic health record entry, prior authorizations and claims management. That, he asserts, will give doctors more time to "practice medicine, do research, master new technology and improve their skills." Stockert, an executive at a Silicon Valley innovation company, says that "combining human expertise and automated functionality creates an'augmented' physician model that scales and advances the expertise of the doctor."