Now imagine your doctor is using an AI model to do the reading. Though not in a hospital setting, the “basilar ganglia” is a real error that was served up by Google’s healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini. Google calls the incident a simple misspelling of “basal ganglia.” Some medical professionals say it’s a dangerous error and an example of the limitations of healthcare AI. One of its examples was that Med-Gemini diagnosed an “old left basilar ganglia infarct.” But as established, there’s no such thing. It’s not clear exactly why none of them caught the error; Google did not directly answer a question about why it slipped through.