{"id":21771,"date":"2026-04-29T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/21771\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:16","slug":"why-conversations-around-health-ai-may-be-evolving-beyond-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/21771\/","title":{"rendered":"Why conversations around health AI may be evolving beyond hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re reading the web edition of STAT\u2019s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/ai-prognosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to get it<\/a>\u00a0delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My phone blew up while I was on vacation last week: The Associated Press Stylebook announced \u201chealth care\u201d should actually be one word, \u201chealthcare.\u201d STAT is still deciding\u00a0which we should use. Which do you prefer? You can weigh in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/28\/ap-style-change-health-care-one-word-or-two\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Will my newsletters technically be shorter if we switch to \u201chealthcare\u201d? Food for thought.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now we can have a real conversation about AI in health care<\/p>\n<p>In his recent video \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1RKGWg2Ex2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The People Do Not Yearn for Automation<\/a>,\u201d The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel explains \u201csoftware brain\u201d \u2014 thinking about the world as a series of databases that are easily manipulated to solve problems \u2014 and why that is creating a disconnect between the AI world and everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The AI world thinks that AI really can solve the world\u2019s ills and thus anti-AI sentiment is just a marketing problem. 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