Mind the Gap: AI, Health, and Digital Equity

As deepfake technology makes it impossible to trust what we see and hear, the implications extend far beyond fraud into mental health, emergency response, and the very foundation of public health communication. The erosion of reality itself has become a health crisis.

Sixty-six years after Ledley and Lusted computerized medical diagnosis, physicians are still hesitant to embrace decision support tools. But this time, the reluctance might actually be justified.

Five years after documenting the rise and fall of hydroxychloroquine, I'm seeing the same dangerous patterns in how AI health innovations spread—and why the stakes for equity have never been higher.