Sensible Medicine Going Beyond "AI in Medicine"
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Mar 4, 2026 Dr. Shantanu Nundy, a practicing physician, innovator, FDA AI advisor, and author. He explores using AI to raise care for underserved populations. He outlines autonomous AI clinicians, multimodal early screening, and AI-generated drug endpoints. He discusses AI as a behavior-change coach, monitoring signals beyond vitals, and breaking care into micro use-cases with an AI team.
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AI As A Tool To Close Large Care Gaps
- AI should be framed as a tool to close major care gaps like 100 million people without a regular source of care.
- Shantanu Nundy lists concrete population gaps (no regular care, doctor shortages, medical errors) to justify urgent AI deployment.
AI Is The Only Near-Term Scalable Lever
- AI is the only near-term technology with material potential to change health outcomes at population scale.
- Nundy argues AI sits sidelined in admin tasks but could directly make clinical decisions and reach rural communities.
Prioritize Autonomous AI For Chronic Care
- Build autonomous AI for chronic disease management and triage rather than only incremental documentation tools.
- Nundy highlights titrating meds and ongoing management as high-impact autonomous use cases beyond initial triage.