JAMA + AI Weekly Update August 23, 2025

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil, professor of law and health policy at Stanford University, joins JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss her recently published JAMA Perspective that lays out a framework for when and how health care organizations should disclose AI use to patients.

Dr Mello shares insights on the importance of patient trust and surveys that suggest many patients currently mistrust the use of AI in their care.

Learn more about this JAMA+ AI Conversation and listen to the podcast.

Editor’s Picks in this week’s JAMA+ AI:

• A trial published in JAMA Surgery found that personalized expert instruction improved surgical performance and skill transfer more effectively than AI tutor instruction, emphasizing the value of human involvement in AI-based surgical training.
• An associated commentary, “Intelligent, Human-Centric Delivery Is Needed to Maximize AI,” observed “the method of interaction with an AI system is as important as the accuracy and automated performance of the system itself.”
• Among high-risk psychiatric inpatients, a smartphone-based intervention for suicide-focused CBT reduced suicidal ideation and recurrent attempts in patients with prior attempts, found this study published in JAMA Network Open.