AI in Healthcare March 18, 2025
AI has a long way to go before it meaningfully closes disparities in healthcare access and delivery. In fact, even when aimed at that goal, the technology can backfire.
So warn researchers at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine on Long Island, N.Y.
“[W]hat AI lacks that physicians have is not intelligence but rather wisdom—the sense of intuition that a human being can accumulate only over time,” anesthesiologist Ana Costa, MD, and co-authors write in a review of the relevant literature published this month in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
“As the ability of AI is directly proportional to the quality of the training sets used,” the authors point out, “[researchers] have addressed concerns regarding bias in...
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