An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum,” generated a great deal of discussion — much of it horrified. In particular, people are focusing on the study’s conclusions: that “chatbot responses were longer than physician responses, and the study’s…
Comments closedMy debut novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, is not only one of the latest fiction books about AI, but a speculative medical thriller set in near-future Seattle, where the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms to guide—and limit—healthcare turns out to be, in the end, subject to its human creators’ flaws. The book’s publication…
Comments closedWell before the advent of chat GPT, popular culture has explored how technology might affect health care, often with a dystopian bent. Take, for example, the 2013 sci-fi movie Elysium, set in 2154 (spoilers ahead). Matt Damon’s character, Max, is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation when his factory supervisor threatens to fire him if…
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