INTELLIGENT: The Evolution of AI Transforming Healthcare

Artificial intelligence is changing medicine faster than most people realise.It is reading scans, guiding surgery, accelerating drug discovery, supporting medical education, redesigning clinical trials, and reducing the administrative burden that pulls clinicians away from patients. But medicine is not just a technical system. It is a human one. And the rise of intelligent machines forces a profound question: what kind of intelligence does medicine actually need?In Intelligent, Shafi Ahmed explores the revolution already underway in healthcare and the choices that will determine what comes next. Moving from the history of AI to its real-world clinical applications, he examines where the technology is succeeding, where it is overpromising, and where it risks doing harm if deployed without proper evidence, oversight, and moral clarity.This is not a book about replacing doctors with machines. It is a book about understanding what machines can do, what they cannot do, and how medicine can use AI to reduce suffering, extend life, and improve care without sacrificing trust, judgment, or the human presence that patients still need most.Intelligent is a timely, authoritative, and deeply thoughtful guide to the future of medicine.Shafi Ahmed is a world-renowned, multi-award-winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and international keynote speaker.He is an Honorary Professor at UCL Business School for Health and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. He was previously a faculty member at Singularity University and Harvard Medical School.He is a 3x TEDx speaker and has delivered over 350 keynotes in 65 countries.A Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 2020 for his humanitarian work, he has spent the last decade at the intersection of exponential technologies, innovation and clinical practice. He is known as the “virtual surgeon”, “the world's most watched surgeon” and a “storyteller in scrubs” Read more