Prescription drugs have become a scam that generates a thousands of dollars a year in doctor for patient monitoring of dubious value for most medications. AI monitoring combined with real time physiological testing is far better than a rushed 15 minute visit with a busy doctor.
AI is not an “algorithm” like he thinks, it is machine learning that is fundamentally similar to human learning. But unlike a human doctor who might have been tired or hung over the day in med school when an obscure but deadly drug combination was discussed, AI will have perfect recall. Prescribing meds is based on pattern matching - integrating symptom and data and weighing alternative to select the best course of action. AI excels at pattern matching.
“Picture an older patient already juggling a box of daily pills: a blood thinner, a blood pressure combo, metformin, a proton pump inhibitor, and something for sleep.” The only thing needed is the Montelukast.
“No one notices the new drug interacts with the blood thinner.”
It might be missed by the doctor or pharmacist BUT AI WOULDN’T MISS IT!
I only saw it once and half remember some of it but the movie Demon Seed (1977) with Julie Christie, from the novel by Dean Koontz has the computer change the insulin dose for someone so they will die and be out of the way. Followed by hybrid impregnation of the woman as part of a takeover plan.
As a Luddite myself, this was a horrible situation.
Alterations in the prescriptions in the current AI era would give opportunities for a coordinated attack.
Side note: Julie Christie was a finalist contender for the role of Honey Ryder in the James Bond film, Dr. No, “but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Seed
God forbid.
I use Google AI mode and OpenAI GPT to help lay out webpages.
I ask the same question in both and get 2 different answers.
This should be simply and the same answer.
No way should AI be used to prescribe medicine.