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Searching to Surrender: Don’t Let AI Out of the Fire Pit (Ep. 78)
Fifteen years ago, keeping up with vitiligo news was easy. There simply wasn’t that much of it.
Today, research, clinical trials, industry updates, patient discussions, and AI-generated answers arrive faster than anyone can realistically process them.
In Episode 78 of Deep Dive in Vitiligo, we look at what happens next: people stop searching, comparing, and opening twenty browser tabs — and start asking AI to do the thinking for them.
That shift has a name: cognitive surrender.
We explore why handing part of the decision-making process to ChatGPT and other AI tools can be perfectly rational, where it becomes risky, and why pharma companies, doctors, and patient organizations suddenly need to care about what AI says when someone asks a very simple question:
“What are my options?”
AI may be both the cause of the information flood and our best tool for navigating it. Just don’t let it out of the fire pit.
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