Healthcare Researchers Must Be Wary of Misusing AI

Author: Duke-NUS Medical School

Publisher: Science Daily

Publication Year: 2022

Summary: The following article advises that strong care needs to be taken not to misuse or overuse machine learning in healthcare research. An international team of researchers call for oversight because machines are capable of making choices more objectively than humans. They call for being able to explain algorithms come to the conclusions that they do. The researchers advise that machine learning algorithms be evaluated against traditional approaches before they are used in clinical research. Only then can they complement clinician decision making rather than replacing it.