[newzjunkey]

AI can surely assist in health care today but there's a huge trust factor. We all know costs and profit pressures will move AI into places it doesn't need to be.

We cannot take the human factor out of decision making. A machine doesn't have the experience of being a human.

Several classic Star Trek episodes dealt with the idea of man becoming submissive to computer intelligences. Those episodes are more relevant today at the dawn of AI than they were at the dawn of basic data processing.

[rlmorel]

Of course there is a trust factor. You have to trust that the brain surgeon isn’t a crack addict who used a fake resume to get the job. And you have to trust that AI implementations are done ethically.

Just as a hammer can be used to bash someone’s brains in rather then build a coffee table, and are forced to fight to be sure people aren’t bashing in skulls, we also need to fight AI to ensure it is being used to help people and caregivers, not surviell them or use information AI might find in order to funnel patients in to care they don’t need or deny them care they do need.

Humans have responsibility. If we had a functional government, I would feel more sanguine about it, but it seems evil is triumphing lately, so I don’t.