About this episode

The episode discusses the role of AI large language models in patient-clinician conversations and the associated risks and opportunities.

In this podcast Dr Samantha Black, Dr Maya Sussmann and Chair of Patient voices at RCoA, Jenny Westaway discuss the use and growth of AI large language models and their role in the patient-clinician conversation, and the various risks and opportunities this presents. They discuss the latest technology being used and how patients are currently using AI to inform themselves about healthcare. Recorded 26 September 2025 Related information: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4jnwdvg9qo

People in this episode

Guests: Dr Samantha Black, Dr Maya Sussmann, Jenny Westaway

Topics covered

• AI
• patient information
• healthcare technology
• patient-clinician conversation
• risks and opportunities

Keywords

• AI
• large language models
• patient information
• healthcare
• technology
• risks
• opportunities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal College of Anaesthetists

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