“how willing are you to turn your care over to artificial intelligence”
Doctor + AI is fine with me. One can check the other.
If the “AI” means you feed in symptoms and it gives treatments, all that is is people that have fed data into a computer and it spits out some of that data.
RE: Doctor + AI is fine with me. One can check the other.
The danger comes when a hospital puts a higher value on the abilities of the machine than a nurse’s or doctor’s experience and critical thinking skills.
Experience, after even 5-10 years in nursing as an example, provides more value than an algorithm that lacks a human component. The other danger is that younger nurses may learn to lean on AI as opposed to evaluating the situation themselves. As with any tool, it is great to have, but AI cannot have a higher priority than clinical judgment.
There are image processing AI’s that can separate women from men with a high degree of certainty, even men with wigs and makeup are classified as men. Many doctors are unable to do this today even after extensive medical training. Having “AI” doctors might not be the worst idea.
Is the AI going to be programmed with the Hippocratic oath? Otherwise, the computer may not value the preservation of human life the same way a human physician should ( although it is an outrage that there are doctors in favor of abortion and euthanasia—both explicitly against the oath).