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Artificial Intelligence In The Medical System: Four Roles For Potential Transformation, Will Nicholson Price Ii
Artificial Intelligence In The Medical System: Four Roles For Potential Transformation, Will Nicholson Price Ii
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Artificial intelligence (AI) looks to transform the practice of medicine. As academics and policymakers alike turn to legal questions, a threshold issue involves what role AI will play in the larger medical system. This Article argues that AI can play at least four distinct roles in the medical system, each potentially transformative: pushing the frontiers of medical knowledge to increase the limits of medical performance, democratizing medical expertise by making specialist skills more available to non-specialists, automating drudgery within the medical system, and allocating scarce medical resources. Each role raises its own challenges, and an understanding of the four roles …
Risks And Remedies For Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, W. Nicholson Price Ii
Risks And Remedies For Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, W. Nicholson Price Ii
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering health care and serving major roles, from automating drudgery and routine tasks in medical practice to managing patients and medical resources. As developers create AI systems to take on these tasks, several risks and challenges emerge, including the risk of injuries to patients from AI system errors, the risk to patient privacy of data acquisition and AI inference, and more. Potential solutions are complex but involve investment in infrastructure for high-quality, representative data; collaborative oversight by both the Food and Drug Administration and other health-care actors; and changes to medical education that will prepare …