An AI model wrote exercise plans for five made-up cardiac patients that two experts rated as safe and guideline-consistent. No real patients were involved and no comparison to clinician-written plans was made. This is a proof-of-concept, not evidence the AI can prescribe exercise.
The AI generated a structured 30-day exercise program for every one of the five hypothetical cardiac scenarios, and two experienced cardiac rehabilitation specialists found no manifestly unsafe recommendations in any of them.
Expert mean ratings on a 5-point scale were 4.5 for guideline adherence, 5.0 for safety, and 4.3 for clinical plausibility. Safety was the highest-rated domain (range 4.8–5.0, with four of five scenarios scoring the maximum), while clinical plausibility showed the most variability (range 4.1–4.4).
The study involved no real patients, used only five hypothetical profiles, relied on subjective Likert-scale ratings by two reviewers, and did not compare the AI-generated plans to prescriptions written by experienced cardiac rehabilitation clinicians.
Single-blind randomized controlled trial. Sixty-four participants were randomized across two intervention arms and assessed at twelve weeks for the primary outcome…
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