What Chris Thompson has said about Artificial intelligence in surgery
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 21, 2026
Chris Thompson, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham, has been quoted on Artificial intelligence in surgery 2 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thompson says in his lab's research, trainees using robotics performed a complex tumor resection almost as well as experts, compared with years of learning by the traditional method.
“That's why it takes two or three years to learn how to do it. They'll sit down with a robot and be almost good as an expert”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:28:11
Thompson advocates using AI to objectively grade procedures and sharing those grades with credentialing bodies and patients.
“It would be nice for patients to be able to select who they're gonna go to based on objective metrics”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:29:38
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.
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