Moving beyond the AI sales pitch – Empowering clinicians to ask the right questions about clinical AI

We challenge the dominant technology-centric narrative around clinical AI. To realise the true potential of the technology, clinicians must be empowered to take a whole-system perspective and assess the suitability of AI-supported tasks for their specific complex clinical setting. Key factors includ...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim Habli, Mark Sujan, Tom Lawton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-09-01
Series:Future Healthcare Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664524015698
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Summary:We challenge the dominant technology-centric narrative around clinical AI. To realise the true potential of the technology, clinicians must be empowered to take a whole-system perspective and assess the suitability of AI-supported tasks for their specific complex clinical setting. Key factors include the AI's capacity to augment human capabilities, evidence of clinical safety beyond general performance metrics and equitable clinical decision-making by the human–AI team. Proactively addressing these issues could pave the way for an accountable clinical buy-in and a trustworthy deployment of the technology.
ISSN:2514-6645