Will AI build clinical reasoning, or bypass it?

Five new papers, including a Nature Medicine warning about 'never-skilling', suggest that AI's effect on how doctors learn to think depends on supervision and design far more than on the model itself.

Ask a large language model a clinical question and it will hand you an answer that is fluent, confident, and often correct. That is exactly what worries me. Medical education has never really been about producing the right answer on demand. It is about building the reasoning that lets a doctor reach the right answer when the tool is wrong, unavailable, …