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John Brownstein runs innovation at Boston Children's Hospital. He's deploying OpenAI's new healthcare product across his organization. He's also predicting it will hurt someone.
"I'm worried about the potential of an AI adverse event that could set the whole field back," Brownstein told Bloomberg this week. Then the admission. "I think it's very likely we'll see it."
That sentence should stop you. A senior executive at one of America's top pediatric hospitals, signing contracts with OpenAI while publicly acknowledging the technology will probably cause harm. Not might. Will. He's betting the benefits outweigh the casualties. Parents bringing their kids to Boston Children's didn't get a vote on that bet.
Robert Brown
Tech journalist. Lives in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Got his start writing for his high school newspaper. When not covering tech trends, he's swimming laps, gaming on PS4, or vibe coding through the night.
