Artificial intelligence in surgery
Subject in Technology
Artificial intelligence in surgery has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chris ThompsonProfessor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham
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
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
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
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.