CODEX Director Sumant Ranji featured in the San Francisco Chronicle

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UCSF CODEX Director Sumant Ranji, MD, was recently featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, weighing in on one of the most important questions in medicine today: Can AI be trusted to diagnose patients?

In the article "AI outperformed doctors on diagnosing tough cases — but is it ready for real patients?" (SF Chronicle, April 30, 2026), Dr. Ranji offers a grounded external perspective on a new study published in Science Magazine showing that an advanced AI model outperformed human physicians across multiple diagnostic benchmarks.

Is AI ready for prime time? Dig into the full article to hear from Dr. Ranji alongside other leading experts.

Read the study here.

Peter G. Brodeur et al.. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician. Science392,524-527(2026). DOI:10.1126/science.adz4433