Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series
Everything That Matters: AI and the (Very Near) Future of the Clinician
Seminar Series Details:
Presented By:
Leo Celi MD (MIT)
Where:
Online
Organized By:
BTEP
About Leo Celi MD (MIT)
Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology
Co-Director, MIT Sana
Staff Physician, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School
- MPH in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard University School of Public Health, 2010
- MSc in Biomedical Informatics, MIT, 2009
- MD in Medicine, University of the Philippines, 1990
About this Class
AI tools are generating measurable time savings for clinicians, yet those savings rarely return to the healthcare provider. Health systems convert efficiency into expanded capacity while bureaucratic demands that AI cannot touch continue to grow. This talk examines the forces driving that gap, from Jevons Paradox to the "reverse centaur" dynamic in which workers serve the machine rather than the other way around, and asks what a genuinely human-centered model of clinical AI would require. It closes with a provocation drawn from fiction: that the real promise of AI is not more productivity, but the permission to attend to what medicine was always supposed to be about.