New AI model passes medical boards — and the profession is nervous
It scored higher than the average human candidate. What happens next is the real question.
A frontier AI model developed by a Melbourne-headquartered lab has become the first system to comfortably clear the written portion of Australian medical board exams — with a score in the top 8% of human candidates.
The result, verified by three independent examiners, has set off an urgent conversation inside the profession about what the next five years look like.
"It doesn't replace a doctor," one senior clinician stressed. "But it definitely changes what one doctor can do in a day."
The full report reveals internal communications, previously undisclosed timelines, and verified source material that reshapes the entire narrative around this story. Subscribers get the complete investigation, including on-the-record interviews.
Behind closed doors, decisions were being made that neither the public nor most of the staff had any awareness of at the time — a pattern that our reporting suggests goes far deeper than anyone has admitted publicly.
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