With patients increasingly using AI for selfdiagnosis and clinicians using it for note-taking, where does the line of human-in-the-loop sit?
Dr Tuckey: To me, speed and safety aren’ t competing priorities. The key distinction is whether you treat AI as a decisionmaker or decision-supporter. We firmly believe it should be the latter. At Scan. com, AI helps surface information, prioritise risk and streamline workflows, but clinicians remain responsible for decisions and patient care from triage through to treatment.
Dr Baker: As I see it, the clinician and the patient always have to be the decision-makers. AI does the admin, not the medicine.
Dr King: Healthcare will always require human judgement. AI can help people find information faster and help clinicians spend less time on administration, but trust, empathy and accountability remain fundamentally human responsibilities. The future isn’ t AI replacing clinicians – it’ s clinicians becoming more effective because technology removes friction from their work. The same principle applies across health innovation. At BioOrbit, we are using microgravity in space to unlock new drug formulations. But every breakthrough still needs to pass through rigorous scientific validation, clinical testing and regulatory oversight.
54 August 2026