Posted 1/5/2024, 6:45:58 PM
AI Poised to Transform Healthcare, Raising Concerns Over Loss of Human Connection
- AI and sensors will soon match or exceed human capabilities in diagnosing and treating health conditions, reducing the need for healthcare professionals
- AI already outperforms humans in some medical tasks and is rapidly advancing, with access to huge datasets to improve its skills
- Patients often prioritize clinical competence over bedside manner when choosing doctors, and gravitate toward convenient, tech-based services over human interaction
- Corporations and healthcare systems will switch to AI to cut costs, without considering the loss of human connection
- Healthcare professionals must prove their value-add over AI systems quickly, or else face replacement by technology