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## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 52 — a052

# Eric Topol

**Role in the source:** Cited voice on AI's positive potential for **competence** in medicine. A cardiologist, scientist, and author (e.g., *Deep Medicine*), and a prominent commentator on AI in healthcare.

**Attributed contribution:** In a 2024 address he noted that **multimodal AI will create a high-resolution view of human beings**, delivering individualized medicine spanning a patient's entire life. Used to illustrate how AI can *boost* the competence leg of the [[concept-psychological-needs-triad]] (alongside the radiology-triage example associated with [[entity-curtis-p-langlotz]]).