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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116924832472791880
A thread.
We cannot just say “AI is wrong” but ask why it is appealing? How is it solving a real/perceived problem, and what are we proposing as an alternative? A legitimate alternative.
AI is appealing here, at least partially, because our health care system is fundamentally broken and unsupportive of individuals. Many doctors would like to be more involved but effectively are punished financially if they do much as try.
And I’ve also had plenty of medical individuals who exhibit near zero level of empathy. Like the pediatric surgeon who didn’t understand why I cared about service industry workers.
You cannot just say “no” but have to engage, understand, and help create alternatives.
I don’t have answers here.
And I see patients using AI to better understand their condition as failure of a system. A doctor using an LLM to do their job, say, diagnose, is a failure of the individual.