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A supervised study tests Google’s medical AI before urgent-care visits
A prospective single-center feasibility study in The Lancet reports that 98 adults completed a monitored conversation with Google’s AMIE before an urgent primary-care visit. No predefined safety stop occurred, though supervisors flagged one hallucination and added information in five conversations. Clinicians received summaries; the non-randomized study does not establish safety or benefit at scale.
Primary source · October 8, 2026
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