Forget about replacing doctors with AI—ȷust get our computers to work

Much of the excitement around using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare lies in the promise that machines will be able to make sophisticated clinical judgments, such as diagnosing disease and making treatment decisions. In the past year the UK government has invested in AI in the hope that it can speed up diagnosis and tackle NHS waiting times. The former health and social care secretary Steve Barclay boasted that “more cutting edge AI technology across the NHS” will help with “quicker, more accurate diagnosis of lung cancer.”1 Similar hopes have been echoed by other healthcare leaders and commentators.2AI will undoubtedly revolutionise radiology interpretation, even if the evidence supporting plans to procure the technology for English hospitals is currently lacking.23 Other applications touted for AI include acting as “virtual nurses” for patients with chronic diseases and predicting cancer metastases.4 Such technology may well prove useful in time, but the most exciting…
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