The New York Times talks to doctors who worry about whether artificial intelligence (AI) is up to the job of assisting in patient care.
In medicine, the cautionary tales about the unintended effects of artificial intelligence are already legendary.
There was the program meant to predict when patients would develop sepsis, a deadly bloodstream infection, that triggered a litany of false alarms. Another, intended to improve follow-up care for the sickest patients, appeared to deepen troubling health disparities.
AI is being tested in various ways. There is no Doctor AI yet, but the algorithms are embedded in decision-support software and even hardware that analyzes mammograms.