What a paradox: The public resistance to AI is growing at roughly the same rate that the hard evidence is showing spectacularly health benefits and lives saved from AI’s every day applications.

Here’s the latest. Doctors from around the country are rallying around the rapid adoption of automated vehicles (AVs) because of the dramatic reduction in car accidents and serious injuries.

A 2025 peer-reviewed study, which examined more than 50 million fully driverless miles on public roads, has found 80% reductions in crashes compared with human drivers on the same streets.

This data comes from Waymo, which admittedly has a clear bias because they operate the AVs. But it’s well established that nearly 90% of accidents are due to driver error and increasingly drivers texting while their car swerves all over the road.

Around 40,000 Americans die on the roads each year. More than 2 million Americans suffer “serious injuries.”

New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Minnesota and Washington, D.C., have laws blocking robotaxis in their states – mostly at the behest of the taxi lobby.

The author of the letter, Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, the chief medical officer at Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, explains his underlying motivation: “I’m a neurosurgeon that practices and frequently have blood on my hand from car crashes, including of children.”