This year, I did a lot of reading about current and future applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care - for example, how it will reduce the grunt work of selecting future physicians ; become a required competency in medical education ; provide relief from overflowing primary care electronic in-baskets ; and provide clinical decision support for treating patients with depression . I've read pessimistic commentaries about chatbots and large language models being a "Pandora's box" and more optimistic pieces arguing that generative AI can overcome the "productivity paradox" of information technology: that is, it won't take decades to see large gains in health care quality and efficiency, as we haven't seen with implementation of electronic health records. Meanwhile, regulatory authorities are still struggling to catch up to ensure the safety of AI products without discouraging technological innovation. (And while I was retrieving thes...