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EBMT 2025 | Ushering in the era of the hematologist-AI alliance: balancing human wisdom and artificial synthesis

In this video, Manuela Spadea, MD, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, comments on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in hematology, highlighting that AI is not a replacement for human clinicians and researchers, but rather a tool that can support and enhance their work. Dr Spadea emphasizes the importance of balancing human wisdom and AI-driven synthesis, trusting AI as a tool while maintaining critical thinking, compassion, and ethics. This interview took place at the 51st Annual Meeting of the EBMT in Florence, Italy.

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Artificial intelligence is already inside all of our work as researchers and clinicians. And I think that this is only the beginning of the question, because we are facing a revolution, a revolution that we can only embrace. And if we want to be better clinicians and better researchers, we have to use AI. Which is the key question? The key question is that we don’t have to fear AI because AI is here to support us as clinicians and as researchers...

Artificial intelligence is already inside all of our work as researchers and clinicians. And I think that this is only the beginning of the question, because we are facing a revolution, a revolution that we can only embrace. And if we want to be better clinicians and better researchers, we have to use AI. Which is the key question? The key question is that we don’t have to fear AI because AI is here to support us as clinicians and as researchers. 

How? Because AI is a tool that is able to manage data, a vast amount of data, and it does better than us because it’s a machine. And so it functions better than the human mind. But our intelligence, our reasoning, our compassion, ethics, empathy could not be substituted anyhow. 

So AI can only support hematology and lead hematology to a new standard of excellence. And as a clinician, as a researcher, we should trust, but not have an overreliance in it. And the true balance could be found only if we understand to use it as a tool. As it is, it is a tool, it’s taught to function as a machine, and we don’t have to pretend anything else. And we should remember where we started as clinicians and researchers. Our mind and our heart are irreplaceable.

 

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