The strategic integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into modern medical practice promises to augment the quality of healthcare provided by physicians. In this chapter, we point to a potential downside of this integration by focusing on the importance of medical expertise and highlighting how its development will be impeded by the limited AI integrations that seem most promising. By considering various facets of the successful treatment of challenging clinical cases, we argue that AI techno…
Read moreThe strategic integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into modern medical practice promises to augment the quality of healthcare provided by physicians. In this chapter, we point to a potential downside of this integration by focusing on the importance of medical expertise and highlighting how its development will be impeded by the limited AI integrations that seem most promising. By considering various facets of the successful treatment of challenging clinical cases, we argue that AI technologies cannot match expert physicians, in most fields, in their specialized capabilities for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. We then consider how medical expertise is developed through the improvement of clinical reasoning and argue that AI applications which automate seemingly menial tasks, such as clinical intake, take away necessary opportunities for this improvement.
