Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

Ep 23: Stanford Professor James Zou on the Economics, Regulation and Applications of AI in Healthcare

Episode Summary

Jacob and Nikhil sit down with James Zou, Stanford faculty director of Data4Health and widely cited ML paper author and discuss all things AI including early cancer detection, clinical trials, clinician adoption, FDA regulation and the impact of foundation models.

Episode Notes

00:00 intro

01:08 James’ background

04:39 regulation of AI medical devices

14:43 impact of foundation models on healthcare

19:41 the future of cancer detection

23:47 real-world control arms

35:18 AI drift

37:42 over-hyped/under-hyped

40:03 most surprising AI interaction