MedPage Today October 24, 2021
— It may help in assessing things like suicide risk, but its use raises informed consent issues
Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential for forensic psychiatry but can also bring moral hazard, said Richard Cockerill, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Saturday at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law annual meeting.
He defined AI as computer algorithms that can be used in specific tasks. There are two types of AI, Cockerill explained. The first type, “machine learning,” involves having a computer use algorithms to perform tasks that were previously only done by humans. The second type, “deep learning,” is when the computer — using what it has learned previously —...
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