Posted 14 August 2025 - 03:04 PM
Azath Vitr (D, on 14 August 2025 - 02:56 PM, said:
HoosierDaddy, on 14 August 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:
I get what you are saying... but I think most people have no CLUE what tools their doctors are using or how they work. Nor do they care. They care about what the doctor tells them.
In the United States and other countries where healthcare is for-profit, some doctors are almost certainly going to be vocal about not using AI in a bid to attract more patients:
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researchers [...] found that U.S. adults were significantly less likely to trust, feel empathy toward or seek care from a physician who advertised using AI — whether for diagnostic, therapeutic or even administrative tasks. [...] in every case, mentioning AI use reduced scores for perceived competence, trustworthiness and empathy. Patients were also less likely to say they would book an appointment.
https://www.medicale...-ai-study-shows
In an ethical and rational society, it would be illegal for doctors to not use AI assistance for applications where it improves medical outcomes.
Lesson - Don't advertise its use. There's no reason to.
People who trust doctors, trust doctors. Again, AI is a TOOL, and a tool is only as good as the material used to build it and the person whose hands are utilizing it. It isn't doing the diagnosing and I don't want it doing the diagnosing either. I will trust the doctor's discretion far more than any AI.
But this is beyond the point. If they want to use AI to assist, great. But overreliance on any tool is a bad thing, medicine and otherwise.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....