Labs · Oct 22, 2025
Dr. Avi Tsur argues in AI21 Labs’ Q&A that medicine’s human work will endure
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Labs published its Q&A with Dr. Avi Tsur on October 22, 2025. Tsur, identified as Director of the High-Risk Pregnancy Unit at Sheba Medical Center, describes AI as already supporting prediction and patient communication during pregnancy, while forecasting a larger change in clinical reasoning. He argues that doctors may move from focusing on a few key findings to integrating hundreds of risk factors, patient concerns and data from advanced physical exams. He also expects AI to take on operational work, assist in surgery and support clinical decisions, but says integrating technology into electronic health records and workflows is difficult. A further obstacle, in his view, is that AI often cannot provide the references doctors need to assess its recommendations; he says reference accuracy is where AI “ the most.” The Q&A’s central distinction is between technical and human work: Tsur says technical tasks will eventually be replaced, while empathy, communicating difficult news and offering comfort will take much longer to replace, “if ever.” The Q&A presents his perspective, not clinical evidence establishing how quickly these changes will occur or how well AI performs in practice.
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Text as retrieved on October 25, 2026; originally published October 22, 2025. The Q&A presents Dr. Tsur’s views and does not provide clinical evidence or performance data establishing how well AI tools perform in practice.
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What evidence would show that AI recommendations in clinical care are accurate and supported by references doctors can assess?
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Dr. Avi Tsur says AI is used at different stages of pregnancy to predict complications and support patient communication.
During pregnancy, we use AI several times. For example, we have patients admitted to our department, and we empower them by leveraging AI tools to help them communicate with their electronic health notes.
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Tsur forecasts that clinical reasoning will integrate more patient factors and information from advanced physical exams.
Moving forward, medicine will evolve to integrate hundreds of risk factors, the nuances of each patient’s complaint, and data gathered from advanced physical exams that use video and other AI-powered tools.
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Tsur expects AI to take on operational work, assist in surgery and support clinical decisions, while saying empathy will take longer to replace.
In the AI-driven future, AI will take many tasks from us. It will handle operational work, assist in surgery, and support clinical decision-making. But I think it will take time before AI can replace us in empathy
Source-stated
Tsur identifies integration into electronic health records and workflows, and AI’s difficulty providing references, as limitations.
It’s hard to integrate new technologies into our electronic health records and workflows. But there’s another issue, more specific to AI: it lacks transparency. It struggles to provide references for the information it generates
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Tsur says technical work will eventually be replaced, while deeply human work will take much longer, if ever.
The parts of our work that are purely technical will eventually be replaced. The parts that are deeply human will take much longer — if ever.
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Version 1 · 2026-11-11T14:33:24.211Z
Dr. Avi Tsur argues in AI21 Labs’ Q&A that medicine’s human work will endure
Labs published its Q&A with Dr. Avi Tsur on October 22, 2025. Tsur, identified as Director of the High-Risk Pregnancy Unit at Sheba Medical Center, describes AI as already supporting prediction and patient communication during pregnancy, while forecasting a larger change in clinical reasoning. He argues that doctors may move from focusing on a few key findings to integrating hundreds of risk factors, patient concerns and data from advanced physical exams. He also expects AI to take on operational work, assist in surgery and support clinical decisions, but says integrating technology into electronic health records and workflows is difficult. A further obstacle, in his view, is that AI often cannot provide the references doctors need to assess its recommendations; he says reference accuracy is where AI “ the most.” The Q&A’s central distinction is between technical and human work: Tsur says technical tasks will eventually be replaced, while empathy, communicating difficult news and offering comfort will take much longer to replace, “if ever.” The Q&A presents his perspective, not clinical evidence establishing how quickly these changes will occur or how well AI performs in practice.
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Labs · Article
Source details
Original source date: Oct 22, 2025 (2025-10-22T12:45:17Z).
Date basis: Date from the publisher’s own records, through its API.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-11T14:33:24.211Z. First observed: 2026-10-25T15:22:12.063Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-25T15:27:44.071Z.
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Text as retrieved on October 25, 2026; originally published October 22, 2025. The Q&A presents Dr. Tsur’s views and does not provide clinical evidence or performance data establishing how well AI tools perform in practice.
Open question
What evidence would show that AI recommendations in clinical care are accurate and supported by references doctors can assess?
Source-stated
Dr. Avi Tsur says AI is used at different stages of pregnancy to predict complications and support patient communication.
During pregnancy, we use AI several times. For example, we have patients admitted to our department, and we empower them by leveraging AI tools to help them communicate with their electronic health notes.
Source-stated
Tsur forecasts that clinical reasoning will integrate more patient factors and information from advanced physical exams.
Moving forward, medicine will evolve to integrate hundreds of risk factors, the nuances of each patient’s complaint, and data gathered from advanced physical exams that use video and other AI-powered tools.
Source-stated
Tsur expects AI to take on operational work, assist in surgery and support clinical decisions, while saying empathy will take longer to replace.
In the AI-driven future, AI will take many tasks from us. It will handle operational work, assist in surgery, and support clinical decision-making. But I think it will take time before AI can replace us in empathy
Source-stated
Tsur identifies integration into electronic health records and workflows, and AI’s difficulty providing references, as limitations.
It’s hard to integrate new technologies into our electronic health records and workflows. But there’s another issue, more specific to AI: it lacks transparency. It struggles to provide references for the information it generates
Source-stated
Tsur says technical work will eventually be replaced, while deeply human work will take much longer, if ever.
The parts of our work that are purely technical will eventually be replaced. The parts that are deeply human will take much longer — if ever.
Source and contributor context
AI21 Labs · Publisher
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Media retrieval status: unchecked.
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Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Hallucination
When an AI system states something false or made up as if it were true.
AI21
AI21 publishes technical research and product announcements about its language models and AI systems.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: da93730f-4a12-f2b6-ffc3-88a90f163b52.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: uncertain by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-11T14:30:46.233Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
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uncertain · 2026-11-11T14:30:46.233Z · anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Publication: da93730f-4a12-f2b6-ffc3-88a90f163b52
attribution — pass: The reading correctly attributes the Q&A to AI21 Labs and the views to Dr. Avi Tsur, identified as Director of the High-Risk Pregnancy Unit at Sheba Medical Center. It is one interview piece, not a listing.
Hear from Dr. Avi Tsur, Director of the High-Risk Pregnancy Unit at Sheba Medical Center
summary — uncertain: The body is faithful, accessible and preserves Tsur's hedge. Hallucination is defined beside the reading. The title says Tsur argues medicine's human work "will endure." He actually says it will take much longer, possibly never, to replace. The title therefore hardens his stated uncertainty into a definite claim. Smallest repair: retitle to something like "...that AI will replace technical tasks long before medicine's human work."
The parts that are deeply human will take much longer — if ever.
date — pass: The stated date, October 22, 2025, matches the UTC day of originalPublished. The forecasts are reported as Tsur's expectations, not as outcomes, and there is no hindsight framing. The page was edited in March 2026, but the cited Q&A answers are plainly the piece's original core content.
support — pass: Each claim is supported by a quoted passage and kept as Tsur's view. This includes the uses during pregnancy, the reasoning forecast, the operational, surgery and decision support roles, the EHR integration and reference limits, and empathy. The question follows from his transparency concern and does not invent stakes. The edit date does not plausibly affect these core interview answers.
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