Forbes November 4, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere—like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT—and increasingly used in medicine. AI could augment or even replace some tasks doctors do, at some point.
Medical students should consider how AI could change the work physicians do (and get paid for) when choosing specialties. This is vital given large time investment in specialty training and the high barriers to switching.
Similar concerns of “replacement” arose with the industrial revolution (1760-1840) that workers might become irrelevant with the invention of machines like James Watt’s steam engine in 1775 and Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793. Ultimately, some jobs were eliminated. But other jobs were created as humans were needed to mind and fix the machines.
AI’s revolution may take a similar path....
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