Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.
2026-04-24 · MIT Technology Review
AI has infiltrated hospitals for notetaking, patient screening, and reading X-rays — and nobody actually knows if any of it helps patients. We're essentially running a massive uncontrolled experiment on sick people because 'AI is everywhere' sounded cooler than 'evidence-based medicine.' Move fast and break things hits different when 'things' are human bodies.