Nature Medicine: Medical AI Trust Can't Be Benchmarked Into Existence, Needs Real-World RCTs
EricTopol · x · 2026-09-14
Researchers including Google's Mike Schaekermann and Yossi Matias publish a Nature Medicine commentary arguing that trust in conversational medical AI cannot be benchmarked into existence — it must be earned through rigorous prospective studies in real-world clinical settings, where the hardest lessons concern the humans and systems around the AI, not the technology itself. Eric Topol amplified the piece, noting trust hasn't been earned yet but potentially can be via randomized trials in real-world medicine.
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