The Wayde AI Brief

Insights at the intersection of psychology, medicine, and responsible AI.

The Wayde AI Brief is a short intelligence brief for healthcare and mental health leaders navigating real-world AI adoption, governance, and risk.

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Sep 23, 2026

Evaluation: Examining AI Beyond Performance

Inside this issue: Emotional AI shapes coping, clinical AI enters physician decision-making, and new safeguards raise expectations for oversight.

Sep 16, 2026

Variability: AI Shows Different Strengths Across Clinical Tasks

Inside this issue: AI takes on different tasks across care, revealing where capabilities, adoption, and oversight vary.

Sep 9, 2026

Proximity: AI Moves Deeper Into Care and Clinical Workflows

Inside this issue: AI enters patient records, reads behavioral signals, and assists in surgery, raising new questions about access, oversight, and clinical boundaries.

Sep 2, 2026

Definition: Making AI’s Role in Care More Transparent

Inside this issue: A closer look at how AI is defined, disclosed, and applied as its role across care continues to expand.

Aug 26, 2026

Transparency: Making AI Visible in Clinical Care

Inside this issue: From FDA disclosures to AI conversations and clinical records, visibility is becoming a prerequisite for trust.

Aug 19, 2026

Safeguards: Testing and Shaping AI for Healthcare

Inside this issue: From AI companions to clinical simulations, healthcare AI faces a growing focus on testing, real-world risks, and stronger safeguards.

Aug 12, 2026

Stewardship: AI Assistance Meets Clinical Decision-Making

Inside this issue: AI dependence, youth risk detection, new EU rules, and autonomous oxygen care.

Aug 5, 2026

Application: AI's Role in Healthcare and Mental Health

Inside this issue: From patient support to clinical screening, where AI is finding its place in healthcare.