By ellameshoulam
Publication Date: 2026-09-24 06:10:00
Chief Scientific Office of Microsoft talks about the future of AI in healthcare (Eran Fann | Photo Editor)
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft Eric Horvitz, M.D., Ph.D., spoke to a nearly full audience at Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. Horvitz discussed uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare and medical research and spoke about the future trajectory of AI in medicine.
The rapid development of AI in healthcare over the last 30 years has raised questions about what this technology will look like in practice. When Horvitz began his career at this intersection of computer science and medicine as an M.D. Ph.D. student at Stanford University, he found bridging the gap between innovation and implementation takes time.
“As a graduate student in the late ’80s, … we’re already working with traditional machine learning pathology patients, hand grafting systems, assessing thousands of probabilities from experts,” Horvitz said….
