Autonomous AI Should Replace Human Doctors, Billionaire’s Son Argues

Topline Health researchers and entrepreneurs argue in a new research paper that the future of top-tier medical care won’t come from doctors working in tandem with artificial intelligence, but will instead be administered purely from autonomous AI models that are likely to outperform both physicians and human-AI hybrid teams as soon as 2030.

A doctor, helped by artificial intelligence for medical imaging, looks at an x-ray on a screen. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel, research fellow Abe Baker-Butler and Curai Health CEO Neal Khosla (son of billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla), wrote in a JAMA-published paper Monday that they disagreed with the prevailing view AI should play only a "supportive role in clinical decision-making," as the American College of Physicians advises.