Peer-reviewed audits show that AI systems will produce convincing medical disinformation on request, complete with fabricated citations and invented clinician testimonials.
Peer-reviewed · The BMJ · 23 June 2026
A man who had lost intelligible speech to ALS communicated 183,060 sentences through an implanted brain–computer interface he operated himself at home, with no researchers present, for nearly 2 years.
Peer-reviewed · Nature medicine · n=1 · 17 June 2026
Trained on 24,000 CT scans, an AI flagged pancreatic cancer a mean of three years before clinical diagnosis, on scans that radiologists had reviewed at the time and judged normal.
Peer-reviewed · Nature Medicine, Shai Shen-Orr lab / Google Health · n=24000 · 11 June 2026
A 968-patient head-to-head trial found the PillCam Colon 2 capsule caught 88% of significant polyps with no sedation and no proceduralist, now FDA-approved for people who skip colonoscopy.
Peer-reviewed · New England Journal of Medicine · n=968 · 10 June 2026