Pharmacotherapy and AI: Beyond the Fear, Towards Collaboration - Ep 185

But the central message is one that I think we're all facing, right? AI is here.

It is definitely a thing.

AI was something that initially was thought to be very futuristic, pie in the sky, something that could never deliver on many of the aims that it had set out for.

But many of us now have incorporated AI into our real lives.

And part of what got me thinking about this was that I was in multiple meetings where we were treating AI like a single entity.

should we ban AI from this? Whether it's a publication, whether it's allowing students to utilize AI.

And to me, it always seemed like it was a bit more nuanced than just a simple question of should we or should we not AI? And I'll just talk just a little bit more just because a little bit of time has elapsed since I wrote the article.

And today, you know, I was just listening to NPR recently and they had this NPR survey.

So once it's hit NPR, you know, it's really in the mainstream.

And they asked educators, these are K through 12 educators, and they just said, what do you think about AI? What do you think about the impact of AI? And almost three out of four K through 12 educators said, I think AI is bigger than the computer.

I think AI is bigger than the Internet.

And these are major statements made by today's educators.

These are people that are training the next generation, and they think that this is a movement that perhaps exceeds things that I got to see the internet really take off during my lifetime.

I got my first email when I started college.

That is a big, big deal.

The people that I trained with would talk to me about using their slide rule back in the day, but I got to use a computer.

I never used a slide rule in my life.

So these are big, big events, and these educators think that AI is going to exceed that.

And then just one more quick thing.

I saw the other day the FDA recently qualified an AI drug development tool for predicting liver toxicity and drug development.

So AI is here.

I think the broader world has recognized that even though it can be a black box and there are many guardrails that we're going to need to erect, AI is certainly here and we have to deal with it.

All right.

But the central message is one that I think we're all facing, right? AI is here.

It is definitely a thing.

AI was something that initially was thought to be very futuristic, pie in the sky, something that could never deliver on many of the aims that it had set out for.

But many of us now have incorporated AI into our real lives.

And part of what got me thinking about this was that I was in multiple meetings where we were treating AI like a single entity.

should we ban AI from this? Whether it's a publication, whether it's allowing students to utilize AI.

And to me, it always seemed like it was a bit more nuanced than just a simple question of should we or should we not AI? And I'll just talk just a little bit more just because a little bit of time has elapsed since I wrote the article.

And today, you know, I was just listening to NPR recently and they had this NPR survey.

So once it's hit NPR, you know, it's really in the mainstream.

And they asked educators, these are K through 12 educators, and they just said, what do you think about AI? What do you think about the impact of AI? And almost three out of four K through 12 educators said, I think AI is bigger than the computer.

I think AI is bigger than the Internet.

And these are major statements made by today's educators.

These are people that are training the next generation, and they think that this is a movement that perhaps exceeds things that I got to see the internet really take off during my lifetime.

I got my first email when I started college.

That is a big, big deal.

The people that I trained with would talk to me about using their slide rule back in the day, but I got to use a computer.

I never used a slide rule in my life.

So these are big, big events, and these educators think that AI is going to exceed that.

And then just one more quick thing.

I saw the other day the FDA recently qualified an AI drug development tool for predicting liver toxicity and drug development.

So AI is here.

I think the broader world has recognized that even though it can be a black box and there are many guardrails that we're going to need to erect, AI is certainly here and we have to deal with it.

All right.