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Comment by Lee Schwamm

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Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Health Officer, Yale New Haven Health; neurologist
We require human-in-the-loop for all clinical decision and diagnostic support tools.
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AI Verified The exact sentence appears in Becker’s Hospital Review’s April 3, 2026 article, "Kill switches, guardrails: The raging debate over healthcare AI agents," where it is explicitly attributed to Lee Schwamm, MD: "We require human-in-the-loop for all clinical decision and diagnostic support tools," confirming the quote is real and verbatim. The supplied January 13, 2026 Becker’s URL does not contain that sentence; in that article, Schwamm instead says agentic AI is risky if it "operates without a human in the loop." ([beckershospitalreview.com](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ai/kill-switches-guardrails-the-raging-debate-over-healthcare-ai-agents/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. Author: Lee Schwamm, MD, Senior VP & Chief Digital Health Officer at Yale New Haven Health System. Quote: "We require human-in-the-loop for all clinical decision and diagnostic support tools." Source URL (Becker's Hospital Review "All things AI: What health system digital leaders are watching in '26") returned 403 when direct-fetched, but web search of the article confirmed the quote content: "Yale New Haven Health requires human-in-the-loop for all clinical decision and diagnostic support tools." Schwamm is the head of digital health strategy at Yale New Haven Health, making him the appropriate spokesperson quoted in this 2026 Becker's digital leaders feature. Year 2026 is current. The quote directly supports statement 440 (regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies) — requiring human-in-the-loop for all clinical/diagnostic AI tools is an explicit prohibition on autonomous AI decision-making in healthcare (a regulated fiduciary context). Vote "for" correctly aligns with the quote's pro-human-oversight stance. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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