Beyond the AI Alarm

Yulin Hswen

doi:10.1001/jama.2026.15949

Medicine & healthPublic health

Beyond the AI Alarm

Yulin Hswen

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JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, and Bon Ku, MD, MPP, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), discuss what it will take to design AI systems that meaningfully improve health for the JAMA+ AI Conversations podcast.

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Appeared: Saturday, September 26. JAMA. Peer-reviewed journal.

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.15949

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