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Lancet Digit Health2026;101073.August 29, 2026Journal Article

Autonomous agentic artificial intelligence systems in health care: friend or foe?

Yiming Qin1, Dian Zeng1, Weizhi Ma2, Zongyuan Ge3, Yih Chung Tham4, Nigam H Shah5, Roland Eils6, Tien Yin Wong7
1Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute (BERI), Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Eye Center, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
2Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
3Augmented Intelligence and Multimodal analytics (AIM) for Health Lab, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
4Center for Innovation and Precision Eye Health and Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore; Ophthalmology and Visual Science Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
5Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
6Digital Health Center, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Intelligent Medicine Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
7Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute (BERI), Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Eye Center, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore; School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
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