I’m not anti-AI because all art needs to have a soul or whatever. I’m anti AI because it’s making my clinicians dependent on the internet in a place that loses power often. I’m anti AI because I’ve seen it miss things a technician would have caught on microscopy. I’m anti-AI because it’s killed my patients.
Medical AI software companies are rolling things out too quickly and making promises they can’t keep. We’re buying into it because capitalism is demanding everyone work faster on more patients but refuses to provide more staff or more support.
If it’s bad enough that I’m seeing it in veterinary medicine, I’m terrified about what that means for patient care in humans.
I used to work on the manufacturing side of the medical industry. Before I left, management was pushing for us to figure out how to use generative AI to machine translate device documentation. I wish I was joking.