AI & Health: Who Controls The Cure?—Epilogue
January 19, 2026
2:15 am
When medicine surrenders judgment to systems it cannot govern, harm becomes inevitable.
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze
What Remains When the Hype Is Gone
Every technological epoch eventually outlives its slogans. The vocabulary of inevitability—disruption, intelligence, revolution—thins with time, leaving behind something more durable and far less forgiving: institutions, incentives, and consequences. Artificial intelligence in medicine has now crossed that threshold. The future it promised is no longer speculative. It is operational. And what now demands scrutiny is not what AI can do, but what it has already rearranged—often invisibly, and rarely democratically.
This investigation began …
