AI applications may not improve dental care if systems are flawed.

Evidence

Maybe the real story isn’t that AI will transform health care into something unrecognizable, but that it will act like an amplifier, exposing more information for medical practitioners and patients to evaluate and decide what is optimal or critical to address at the moment. This raises a harder question: Since humans built these health care systems in the first place, with all their human incentives and flaws baked in, shouldn’t we fix the systems themselves before unleashing machines that will only magnify the issues? — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 323

Categorization

• XREF: This relates to current discussions on healthcare AI implementation. — connects to: AI solutions will not improve access to healthcare as claimed. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 253; AI can incorrectly diagnose problems, leading to misleading solutions. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 423; Replacing skilled labor with AI can result in harm, not benefit. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 168 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 323

Library Connections

• AI in healthcare can improve diagnostic accuracy in certain cases. #complicates (0.50) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 213

Broader Connections

• Confidence in expert systems can be catastrophically misplaced #exemplifies (0.82) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 13
• AI can incorrectly diagnose problems, leading to misleading solutions. #exemplifies (0.80) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 423
• AI solutions will not improve access to healthcare as claimed. #expands (0.70) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 253
• Replacing skilled labor with AI can result in harm, not benefit. #expands (0.60) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 168
• AI systems can fail through instrumentalized self-preservation goals #expands (0.60) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1604