# Will AI replace doctors?

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Question

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 AI 5
  - Mark Cuban
  - Daniel Ek
  - Fei-Fei Li ×2
  - Terry Sejnowski
- Doctors stay 1
  - Reed Hastings

## Doctors with AI 5

1. a16z Podcast · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
   **[Personalized drugs could make treatment fit the patient](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Cuban](https://realalpha.app/people/mark-cuban/) Entrepreneur & investor, Cost Plus Drugs [35:34](https://realalpha.app/v/5UWDUD6qaM4/#t=2134)
2. All-In · Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Longitudinal scans can track changes across hundreds of moles](https://realalpha.app/s/longitudinal-scans-can-track-changes-across-hundreds-of/)**
   > “The average person at NECO today has 950 moles. It's pretty crazy.”
   [Daniel Ek](https://realalpha.app/people/daniel-ek/) Founder & executive chairman, Spotify [19:45](https://realalpha.app/v/JEUboZzZGM4/#t=1185)
3. Huberman Lab · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Surgical robots help, but rare procedures lack training data](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Li](https://realalpha.app/builders/fei-fei-li/) Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University [1:05:47](https://realalpha.app/v/N5AQFYtqx8Q/#t=3947)
4. Huberman Lab · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Care robots could ease elder care and hospital workloads](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Li](https://realalpha.app/builders/fei-fei-li/) Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University [1:40:19](https://realalpha.app/v/N5AQFYtqx8Q/#t=6019)
5. Huberman Lab · Nov 18, 2024 · 5 min
   **[AI can improve doctors when their expertise complements its data](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-can-improve-doctors-when-their-expertise-complements-its/)**
   > “if you let the doctor use the AI, it boosts the doctor to 98”
   [Terry Sejnowski](https://realalpha.app/people/terry-sejnowski/) Professor of Computational Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies [1:42:41](https://realalpha.app/v/etbfLTHD_VU/#t=6161)

## Doctors stay 1

1. Possible · Apr 22, 2026 · 3 min
   **[AI may expand demand instead of eliminating professions](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Hastings](https://realalpha.app/people/reed-hastings/) Co-founder, Netflix [17:54](https://realalpha.app/v/2qoGbd9d2yA/#t=1074)

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.