Biotech investor Robert Nelsen made a bold prediction at a live recording of STAT’s
“Readout LOUD” podcast
last month in San Francisco — that artificial intelligence will replace doctors. In fact, he thinks that AI is
already better
than “most of [his] doctors.” Nelsen’s comments were
quite controversial on social media
, but he
stood by his forecast
on X.
So what tasks typically performed by doctors might be delegated to AI? A startup called Doctronic thinks AI is ready to renew prescriptions, for one. And Utah is allowing the company’s chatbot to do just that by
waiving some of the state’s regulations on the practice of medicine
.
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— Source: STAT News (https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/20/doctronic-ai-physician-chatbot-explored-alex-hogan-status-report/)
