Thursday, November 5, 2026
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST
Stanford Computational Medicine Colloquium: When AI Writes
About this event
Stanford colloquium on generative AI in science and healthcare: fabricated citations in biomedical literature, agentic literature synthesis and ambient AI in clinical documentation. Free lunch talk, Zoom option.
Maxim Topaz of Columbia University School of Nursing and VNS Health presents an audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers showing how citations to nonexistent works enter the literature, what AI agents can and cannot do when synthesizing a research field, and what ambient AI captures and misses in clinical notes. The session ends with practical guardrails for researchers, journals and health systems.
Held in rooms B107 and B136 at Tapao Hall in Palo Alto, hosted by the Stanford Division of Computational Medicine and moderated by Jonathan Chen. Lunch is served and the talk is also streamed on Zoom. Free, no approval needed per the Luma page.
Organized by
Stanford School of Medicine division that hosts a public research colloquium on AI in medicine and science, listed under the ARISE Network.