A dispatch on AI from BIOtech’s big summer bash

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Brittany Trang, Ph.D., covers AI in health and medicine: Does it actually work? Who benefits, or might be harmed? She writes the weekly AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

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I’m writing to you from a hotel room in San Diego, four hours before this newsletter is scheduled to send.

I’m also still reeling from this absolutely crazy story my colleague Lizzy Lawrence wrote. Imagine STAT executive editor Rick Berke reading of the top of the story out loud to a group of STAT reporters over dinner at a waterfront restaurant, and my jaw dropping as I realize what’s going on.