JAMA+ AI Conversations

What are the safety, evidence standards, and transparency needed for AI chatbots used in mental health contexts, particularly for young people. John Torous, MD, MBI, JAMA Psychiatry Author Interviews podcast host, joins JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, to discuss risks, data protections, and the clinical safeguards required to ensure responsible use.

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Dr Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco, speaks with JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis about his new book, "A Giant Leap." Their discussion addresses multiple potential impacts of AI in medicine in terms of clinical practice but also training the next generation of clinicians.

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In this episode, JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, speaks with David Wu, MD, PhD, and Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, about what safe clinical use of LLMs requires. Drawing on the framework of Do No Harm, they examine failure modes, limits of accuracy-based evaluation, clinician AI interaction, and safeguards needed as medical AI moves into patient care.

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From AI Bench to AI Bedside

In this episode of JAMA+ AI Conversations, Editor in Chief Roy Perlis and Associate Editor Yulin Hswen debate recent articles highlighted in JAMA+ AI, including work on patient messaging and suicide screening, plus a call for more critical thinking in medicine.

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A large language model (LLM) details the history of 2 early chatbots, ELIZA and PARRY, in conversation with JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis. This podcast was recorded using OpenAI's ChatGPT in voice mode, via web interface, running on GPT-4o.

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