heathtech called to be interpreters— to mediate between algorithmic recommendation and patient comprehension.
Ethics and Responsibility in the Age of AI
Medicine also entails ethical questions no algorithm can answer. When should one start or stop treatment, how does one allocate scarce resources, or how does one order care in a crisis situation? These cannot be tackled through computational rules. Such quandaries need human values, professional ethics, and cultural sensitivity. AI can at best provide supportive data, but the clinician has to balance the implications and make the decision.
Accountability is also an essential justification for keeping human supervision in place. It is not the machine that is legally and morally accountable when bad things happen.
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