What Happens To My Healthcare When AI Is Wrong ?
- Emir Phillips DBA, JD/MBA, MSFS

- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 12, 2022
At this point in time, can healthcare AI weigh the pros and cons of a course of action or take a better-safe-than-sorry approach as a human doctor might?

What if the data used to train AI in healthcare came from data that was biased because it was collected from a biased society. A society we fundamentally disagree with, say Iran or China. Would it make a difference?
Big data is invaluable in the medical field providing excellent analysis to spot trends to widespread for human capacities, but how easily are your personal medical records,
or parts of it, being spread around?
AI bases its decisions purely on data and outcome optimization, which may or may not be more equitable than decisions made by people. Can AI be unduly influenced by various prejudices from all that data?
Can AI end up perhaps even more biased than me or you?
AI in healthcare promises to minimize insurance premiums, which is highly correlated to minimizing health claims, and thus improving health, but is this realistic?
Can it actually be done?
An AI trained on massive amounts of medical data to find causalities might later make a connection and act without regard to your well-being.
Then what?
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