Artificial Intelligence or AI is a popular and very talked about topic during this time, it will greatly impact health care and the way we get care. Unlike humans AI detects much more than humans can as well as being correct. Although very useful, there could be some problems with using Al. For instance, it could lead to a doctor’s dependency on AI, without it they couldn’t do much or give good diagnosis and patients can be hurt by this. Another issue could be that there could be an issue with AI as in it glitching or something of that sort, I’m not sure if it could accidentally give someone the wrong prognosis or something along those lines but if possible, that could be potentially dangerous. I think though like Bernard Marr said in the clip, AI needs to be used alongside doctors, as a team and working together trying to figure out what is best for the patient.
AI couldn’t see race, gender, class or ability and just focus on the data that is being given, there would be no bias as there is with doctors. No woman would die because of a heart attack because doctors just think women are having anxiety. Minorities wouldn’t be ignored when they go to the doctors with problems because AI could see there is an issue without noticing their race. AI could provide positive health outcomes for those that as of now might be sometimes ignored by some providers.
I believe we should use AI in health care, the positive outcomes I feel like outweigh the negative. Better care can be provided to everyone by using artificial intelligence. I read a book recently called, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande, in one of the chapters, he describes a study that was done in Sweden on artificial intelligence. The study was on EKG reading heart attacks, they were trying to figure out if a human or machine was better at figuring out if the person had a heart attack. The cardiologist that this was tested on had read ten thousand EKGs a year, they gathered two thousand two hundred and forty EKGs, half of them, eleven hundred and twenty showed heart attacks. When tested the result were that the cardiologist picked up six hundred and twenty, while the computer picked up seven hundred and thirty-eight, the machine beat the man by 20 percent. These result show how AI beats men in being able to pick up on stuff doctors might miss, although not perfect, it increases the percentage of people being treated correctly according to what their test result showed.
Gawande, Atul. Complications: a Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science. Picador, 2003.
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