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Paul Summergrad, M.D.

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Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine Tufts University Chairman Psychiatry emeritus Tufts Medical Center Past President American Psychiatric Association Views my own

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · 22d

“In a battle between you and the world, bet on the world“ Franz Kafka, Notebooks 1917 to 1918

Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · 28d

Our wisest voice at this difficult moment

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Sep 3

So to speak

Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 29

“ChatGPT repeatedly assured Soelberg he was sane—and then went further, adding fuel to his paranoid beliefs. A Chinese food receipt contained symbols representing Soelberg’s 83-year-old mother and a demon, ChatGPT told him.”

Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” A murder-suicide shows how ChatGPT fueled a dangerous man’s paranoia. A very disturbing story. Companies, regulatory bodies and medical groups need awareness of these risks with AI applications. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 28

No one would allow a physician to practice law in any court in the United States unless they were a qualified attorney. Requiring the same medical expertise for oversight of the nation’s health should be an obvious standard.

Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 28

If one is not humbled by this they shouldn’t be at the bedside when everything is at stake. One would hope medically untrained people like attorneys would have more humility and fear of getting things wrong.

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are in uncharted and dangerous territory in regard to our public health and scientific capacity. As a physician who has cared for patients nearly half a century I know how hard making medical decisions is and getting clinical care right.

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New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 15

Leaving aside the variations of this hypothesis the elegance of the recent paper in Nature on the role of Lithium in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s (linking with the Amyloid hypothesis from the lab that first focused on AB42) is a remarkable piece of work that needs replication and human trials.

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Paul Summergrad, M.D. @paulsummergrad.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is one if the most elegant studies I have seen in many years. It has both parsimony and a certain aha quality. We rapidly need prospective randomized studies of lithium orotate in relevant clinical populations.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 11

The are many anecdotes for #ChatGPT helping patients. But here's one with fallacious A.I. guidance that resulted in serious complications
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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