JAMA masthead Conversations September 5, 2026

In this episode of JAMA+ AI Conversations, JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis speaks with Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, about his new book, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future. Their wide-ranging discussion addresses multiple potential impacts of AI in medicine in terms of clinical practice, but also training the next generation of clinicians.