India is training doctors in AI. Can they build what tech bros can’t?
Mar 29, 2026•12 min•Ep. 716
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Episode description
India's hospitals have been slow to adopt AI.
Its government, however, has not.
A new programme aims to train 50,000 doctors in artificial intelligence. And not just to use it, but to help build it.
The argument is simple: engineers understand disease like an algorithm. Doctors know it's never that clean.
So what happens when clinicians become co-builders?
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