From Hippocrates to Artificial Intelligence: The Changing Face of Obstetrics in the New Time of A.I.

The art of obstetrics began with observation and judgment. A.I. is teaching us how to reclaim both—through data, discipline, and humility. The Prognosis — Forecasting where medicine, will go.

From the first recorded descriptions of pregnancy in Hippocratic texts to the predictive algorithms of the present, obstetrics has always stood at the edge of knowledge and uncertainty. It is one of medicine’s oldest arts, and perhaps now its most technologically transformed. Hippocrates relied on observation—changes in the eyes, breasts, or pulse—to in…