Nobody is automatically ready for AI

Three new studies show that readiness for clinical AI is shaped by personality, digital access and career fears far more than by simply growing up with the technology.

We tend to assume that readiness for AI will take care of itself. The current cohort of medical students has never known a world without smartphones, so surely they will absorb clinical AI the way they absorbed everything else, by osmosis and generational fluency. It is a comforting story, and this week’s papers suggest it is largely wrong. This isn’t s…