John Lantos

3/ I argue AI is doing something similar to medicine. Doctors aren’t disappearing. But their cultural authority — their aura — is shifting. Read here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Earlier piece: johnlantos.com/publications/d…

2/ Benjamin argued that photography didn’t eliminate painting. It changed it. It altered its “aura.”

1/ I have a new essay in JAMA on AI and the future of medicine. It draws on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

@ErikSosa2018 @JAMANetwork Gracias Erik. What are you working on?

Puede la IA quitarle el alma a la medicina? @johnlantos lo analiza en @JAMANetwork 2026 con una idea poderosa: Los médicos tenemos un aura — como una obra de arte original: Formación encarnada. Presencia irreemplazable. Juicio clínico. Agrego: Humanismo Pero la IA ya diagnostica, ya “empatiza”, ya hace psicoterapia!! “la fotografía no mató a la pintura — la obligó a reinventarse ” La pregunta incómoda que el autor deja sobre la mesa: ¿Qué somos los médicos cuando lo que nos hacía únicos se vuelve reproducible a escala? Agrego: ¿Logrará la IA reemplazar el Trivium del médico? Vale mucho la pena leerlo 👇 The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@haroldpollack Every yahrzeit feels fresh. My dad’s been gone 17 years. I still have dreams about him usually around his yahrzeit. May his memory be a blessing for you

This past week also marked my father's Yartzeit, lost four years ago. I think of him so often. He is deeply missed.

the film Emilia Perez raises questions that are relevant to gender medicine today - when people seek transition, do they want a different gender? Or a different life? johnlantos.com/post/emilia-pe…

What if your genome predicted that you'd become a murderer. And what if you were furious at your ex-wife's new lover, and your teenage daughter's cheating boyfriend. is predictive genomics an alibi? johnlantos.com/post/can-bioet…

A Netflix film about IVF gets some things right, makes up other things, and ignores controversies about eugenics, ableism, and research oversight. Such fictionalizations explain why this technology has not been a victim of the culture wars. johnlantos.com/post/ivf-cultu…

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AI and genomics both promise to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Both are being developed in ways that cannibalize existing data to find predictive patterns - one in our language, the other in our DNA. I examine some of the implications.

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@DivisionGavel @VPrasadMDMPH The Supreme Court disagrees

I support these lawsuits. People who don't know what they are doing shouldn't be in the mandate business.

Since 2017, gender dysphoria (GD) diagnoses tripled, the age at diagnosis fell, and women with the diagnosis now outnumber men. These trends raise many questions. Good research is crucial, but most research on GD simply sucks.

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johnlantos.com/post/survival-…. The baby had callosal agenesis, cortical dysgyria, dysplastic basal ganglia, cleft lip and palate, no eyeballs. A doctor said he is unlikely to derive any benefit from continued life sustaining treatment." The judge agreed.

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Carl Elliott’s book is essential reading for anybody concerned about biomedical research and the protection of people who participate in research. Does innovation require an occasional human sacrifice? Do researchers need the courage to fail? johnlantos.com/post/human-sac…

Echoes of Faulkner everywhere. “This book is a conversation with ghosts.” And again, “Whistleblowers need a story that explains what has happened and does not leave them feeling broken and meaningless. The problem is finding that story.” Faulkner was on a similar quest.