I would love to replace my doctors with AI. Today. Please. I have had Long Covid for over a year now, which is a shitty shitty condition. It’s complicated and not super well understood. But you know who understands it way better than any doctor I’ve ever seen? Every AI I’ve talked to about it. Because there is tons of research going on, and the AI is (with minor prompting) fully up to date on all of it.

I take treatment ideas to real doctors. They are skeptical, and don’t have the time to read the actual research, and refuse to act. Or give me trite advice which has been proven actively harmful like “you just need to hit the gym.” Umm, my heart rate doubles when I stand up because of POTS. “Then use the rowing machine so can stay reclined.” If I did what my human doctors have told me without doing my own research I would be way sicker than I am.

I don’t need empathy. I don’t need bedside manner. Or intuition. Or a warm hug. I need somebody who will read all the published research, and reason carefully about what’s going on in my body, and develop a treatment plan. At this, AI beats human doctors today by a long shot.