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Will AI replace doctors?

Of the 6 moments we cut that answer this, 5 say doctors will work with AI and one says doctors stay. Fei-Fei Li said on Huberman Lab (Aug 10, 2026) that doctors will work with surgical robots because human-robot collaboration is more reliable than autonomy. Reed Hastings said on Possible (Apr 22, 2026) that AI-assisted imaging can increase demand, leaving radiologists in short supply.

Where they stand

Doctors with AI5

  1. a16z Podcast · · 6 min

    Personalized drugs could make treatment fit the patient

    “the cost of designing a drug personalized to you after reviewing your DNA and knowing everything that it knows will start approaching zero”
    Mark CubanEntrepreneur & investor, Cost Plus Drugs35:34

  2. All-In · · 3 min

    Longitudinal scans can track changes across hundreds of moles

    “The average person at NECO today has 950 moles. It's pretty crazy.”
    Daniel EkFounder & executive chairman, Spotify19:45

  3. Huberman Lab · · 3 min Pro pick

    Surgical robots help, but rare procedures lack training data

    “Even if you aggregate the world's liver patient surgeries, you might not have enough data to train this algorithm.”
    Fei-Fei LiProfessor of Computer Science, Stanford University1:05:47

  4. Huberman Lab · · 3 min

    Care robots could ease elder care and hospital workloads

    “We know that on a given shift, nurses walk miles to fetch things, get medicine.”
    Fei-Fei LiProfessor of Computer Science, Stanford University1:40:19

  5. Huberman Lab · · 5 min

    AI can improve doctors when their expertise complements its data

    “if you let the doctor use the AI, it boosts the doctor to 98”
    Terry SejnowskiProfessor of Computational Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies1:42:41

Doctors stay1

  1. Possible · · 3 min

    AI may expand demand instead of eliminating professions

    “we have a shortage now. We have 35,000 radiologists. We need about 40,000. Wages are high.”
    Reed HastingsCo-founder, Netflix17:54

Each moment is a few minutes of a long interview, cut by Real Alpha and filed under how it answers by a model that read its claim and quote. Open a moment for its full transcript. Last moment added Oct 29, 2026.