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Medicine relies on verification. AI operates without that.
AI would be terrible in medicine.
The Gospel is a good example, although I'd argue it's intentionally used for that purpose - that, and so that no person can be held to account for their decisions.
I agree that in actual use, medicine needs to verifiably work. I believe "AI", if you wanna call it that, probably has its place in effectively speedrunning theoretical testing and bruteforcing of results that would take humans much longer to even think of.
The problem arises when people trust whatever the machine spits out. But thats not a new problem with AI its a general problem that any form of media has.
AI is a tool. Just like all tools, it's only as good as the tool that's using it.
And, the material it has to work with, which for AI, is gathered information
Yep, exactly.
As a doctor who’s into tech, before we implemented something like AI-assisted diagnostics, we’d have to consider what the laziest/least educated/most tired/most rushed doctor would do. The tools would have to be very carefully implemented such that the doctor is using the tool to make good decisions, not harmful ones.
The last thing you want to do is have a doctor blindly approve an inappropriate order suggested by an AI without applying critical thinking and causing harm to a real person because the machine generated a factually incorrect output.