Vivek Natarajan (Google Deepmind) on AI Becoming the Third Member of the Medical Team #ai #medicine

Medicine has historically centred on a dyad: doctor and patient. Vivek Natarajan of Google DeepMind argues that AI could turn this into a triad: doctor, patient and AI. The goal is not to replace clinicians, but to amplify their expertise and make world-class healthcare more widely accessible. Vivek Natarjan is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind leading research at the intersection of AI, science and medicine. He is the lead researcher behind Med-PaLM, Med-PaLM 2, AIME, and the AI Co-Scientist, the powerful systems that advance medical and scientific superintelligence. Prior to Google, Vivek worked on multimodal assistant systems at Facebook AI Research. --- The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers who accelerate the science and applications of AI technology for the greater good. The London-based AI conference is a one-day event covering machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, data science, healthcare and life sciences. RAAIS is presented by The RAAIS Foundation, a non-for-profit with a mission to education and research in AI for the common good. Past speakers have included researchers and leaders from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Isomorphic Labs, Meta, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Odyssey, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Benevolent AI, Graphcore, Darktrace, Niantic, Stanford, Berkeley, Cambridge, UCL, the University of Toronto, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the Tony Blair Institute, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. RAAIS: https://raais.co/ The RAAIS Foundation: https://www.raais.org/ Air Street Capital (https://www.airstreet.com/) is a venture capital firm investing in AI-first companies. The State of AI Report: https://www.stateof.ai/ Air Street Press: https://press.airstreet.com/ "Why can’t anyone, anywhere, have access to world-class expertise at their fingertips—right in their pocket—whenever they need it? With the help of AI, my sincere hope is that we can build toward that future. If you look at the history of modern medicine, I would argue that the core unit has always been the dyad: primarily the doctor and the patient. But with the recent advances in AI, something is changing. AI is evolving from being just a tool to becoming more of a teammate. What that means is that the core unit of medicine is progressing from a dyad to a triad: the doctor, the patient, and the AI. The goal is not for AI to replace the human aspect of medicine. Rather, the hope is that AI can help make medicine more human. That’s the future we’re working toward: one where AI amplifies the expertise of caregivers, helps democratize that expertise, and brings world-class healthcare to anyone, anywhere."