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Artificial intelligence - the emperor's new clothes?
1Centre for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
There is a massive hype of artificial intelligence (AI) allegedly revolutionizing medicine. However, algorithms have been at the core of medicine for centuries and have been implemented in technologies such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging machines for decades. They have given decision support in electrocardiogram machines without much attention. So, what is new with AI? To withstand the massive hype of AI, we should learn from the little child in H.C. Andersen's fairytale "The emperor's new clothes" revealing the collective figment of the emperor having new clothes. While AI certainly accelerates algorithmic medicine, we must learn from history and avoid implementing AI because it allegedly is new - we must implement it because we can demonstrate that it is useful.
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