This month’s reader poll piggybacks on my latest Forbes column: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare: Separating Reality From Hype.
Please answer each of the three questions below about the future of AI in American medicine:
Ten years from today, Artificial Intelligence will have improved healthcare quality.
- True (81%, 110 Votes)
- False (10%, 13 Votes)
- Uncertain (9%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 135
Loading ...Ten years from today, Artificial Intelligence will have lowered medical costs.
- True (43%, 57 Votes)
- Uncertain (32%, 42 Votes)
- False (25%, 33 Votes)
Total Voters: 132
Loading ...Finally, 10 years from today, Artificial Intelligence will have made medical practice:
- Better (77%, 115 Votes)
- Worse (13%, 20 Votes)
- AI will have no significant impact (9%, 14 Votes)
Total Voters: 149
Loading ...And here are the results from our February reader survey, which sought your thoughts on the financial relationship between doctors and drug companies:
Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the nation’s largest physician group. He’s the bestselling author of “Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care–And Why We’re Usually Wrong” and a Stanford University professor. Follow him on Twitter @RobertPearlMD.
AI, by itself, is just a tool. But combined with Robotics could cause a major displacement in all the professions. If we ever learn to relate to machines on a personal basis (ie the existence of human relating androids) why have human interaction at all?
The better question is how will we evolve and coexist as humans in an age of machine superiority in action and intelligence and possibly wisdom?
That is my ides of March warning.
Whereas the US and world populations are growing, whereas we sane and reasonable THINKING AND READING people want ALL citizens to have access to health care, be it established that we will need more doctors , and those MDs will need all the AI assistance possible. Humans will still want ‘human touch’, human contact in health care and decision making. AI can help in diagnosis, and robotics can help Star Wars type of bionic/cyborg reconstruction of limbs, etc. We still will need human MDs.
Agree with Miller Wise.