AI and patient information

In this podcast Dr Samantha Black, Dr Maya Sussmann and Chair of Patient voices at RCoA, Jenny Westaway discuss the use and growth of AI large language models and their role in the patient-clinician conversation, and the various risks and opportunities this presents.

They discuss the latest technology being used and how patients are currently using AI to inform themselves about healthcare.

Recorded 26 September 2025

Related information:

• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/
• Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4jnwdvg9qo