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Victor Grech1, Sarah Cuschieri2, Abdelazeem A Eldawlatly3
1Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence (AI) broadly refers to machines that simulate intelligent human behavior, and research into this field is exponential and worldwide, with global players such as Microsoft battling with Google for supremacy and market share. This paper reviews the "good" aspects of AI in medicine for individuals who embrace the 4P model of medicine (Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory) to medical assistants in diagnostics, surgery, and research. The "bad" aspects relate to the potential for errors, culpability, ethics, data loss and data breaches, and so on. The "ugly" aspects are deliberate personal malfeasances and outright scientific misconduct including the ease of plagiarism and fabrication, with particular reference to the novel ChatGPT as well as AI software that can also fabricate graphs and images. The issues pertaining to the potential dangers of creating rogue, super-intelligent AI systems that lead to a technological singularity and the ensuing perceived existential threat to mankind by leading AI researchers are also briefly discussed.
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