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Should we be afraid of medical AI?

2019·46 Zitationen·Journal of Medical Ethics
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Abstract

I analyse an argument according to which medical artificial intelligence (AI) represents a threat to patient autonomy-recently put forward by Rosalind McDougall in the <i>Journal of Medical Ethics</i> The argument takes the case of IBM Watson for Oncology to argue that such technologies risk disregarding the individual values and wishes of patients. I find three problems with this argument: (1) it confuses AI with machine learning; (2) it misses machine learning's potential for personalised medicine through big data; (3) it fails to distinguish between evidence-based advice and decision-making within healthcare. I conclude that how much and which tasks we should delegate to machine learning and other technologies within healthcare and beyond is indeed a crucial question of our time, but in order to answer it, we must be careful in analysing and properly distinguish between the different systems and different delegated tasks.

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationEthics and Social Impacts of AINeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
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