Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine.  Sign up to get it  delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.   This perspective in Neuron about how AI doesn’t know what it’s like to have a body reminded me of this poem by Catarine Hancock about how AI can’t know what the air smells like when it rains.
Another thing a robot can’t truly have? Friends.
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It says it shows that following the adoption of AI scribes, doctor visits have gotten more expensive.
STAT News published a clinical update in Research Highlights on 08 Apr 2026.
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