Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2008-0387 18 0 2025 05 25 1491 1491 EN Alireza Monajemi Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science and Technology Department, History and Philosophy of Science Faculty, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran. 2024 12 24 2025 05 25 Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but is unlikely to fully replace human doctors. This paper explores the limitations of AI in healthcare, focusing on three key areas: lack of embodiment, limited understanding of meaning in everyday language, and the inability to exercise judgment and clinical reasoning. Recognizing these limitations enables us to use AI to enhance our capabilities rather than allowing it to substitute humans. Following this philosophical examination of AI's limitations, I will argue that the question of whether AI will replace doctors is a misleading one. Instead, this framework advocates for synergistic human-AI collaboration in health-care settingsIt necessitates the development of hybrid entities: a physician-AI partnership and a patient-AI interface. The overarching objective is to effectively address the core mission of medicine, which is providing optimal treatment and compassionate care for all patients. This hybrid model must proactively mitigate the risks of AI integration, such as exacerbation of existing health-care challenges and potential dehumanization of patient care. Within this framework, key objectives include: reducing medical errors, fostering humane doctor-patient relationships, mitigating the trend of medicalization, and ultimately improving overall public health outcomes. https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/1491 https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/1491/463