Google's AI Chatbot Saw 100 Real Patients in a Lancet Study — Oct 9, 2026

Can a chatbot safely interview real patients before the doctor does? Google just tested it. **Run time:** 7:28 **In today's episode:** 01. Google's AMIE chatbot interviews 100 real patients, Lancet reports 02. KFF: Medicare-run Slack gave health-AI industry inside access 03. FDA's 2027 agenda: finish AI lifecycle guidance, draft chatbot rules 04. FOLLOW-UP: Utah's AI prescribing pilots may collide with FDA 05. Clairity breast cancer risk AI goes direct to consumers 06. MoleMap: AI-assisted nurses flag more skin cancers, unrandomized 07. Xaira posts first hit rates for AI-designed antibodies 08. OpenAI posts 372 math result families; mathematicians can't read them 09. NEW: Claude Haiku 5.5 at ten cents per million tokens 10. NEW: Anthropic commits $150 million to federal Genesis Mission 11. Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims **TL;DR:** - Google's AMIE reached real patients, in The Lancet (Oct 8). 100 adults at a Beth Israel Deaconess urgent primary care clinic, a physician watching every chat, zero safety stops, final diagnosis in the differential 90% of the time. Single arm, single centre: feasibility, not benefit. - OpenAI published 372 families of AI-generated math results (Oct 6), including a claimed proof of the Unique Games Conjecture. About 42% of top-line results are Lean-checked, and the people best placed to read the proofs say they can't yet. - Health-AI policy is being shaped in rooms the public can't see. KFF Health News (Oct 9) documents a 1,700-member CMS-run Slack and an unlisted FDA listening session on patient chatbots, the same week the FDA put generative-AI mental health devices on its 2027 guidance agenda. **Sources cited:** - The Lancet - Google blog - preprint, arXiv 2603.08448 - KFF Health News - CBS News - MedTech Dive - RAPS - STAT - Health Affairs Forefront background - Everlywell release via Yahoo Finance **Subscribe:** YouTube *medAI Times is for educational and informational purposes only. The content does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendation, or professional clinical guidance. Consult qualified healthcare professionals and refer to official sources before making clinical, research, regulatory, or business decisions.*