Dangers of artificial intelligence in medicine

Two of the most significant predictions for the new decade are that AI will become more pervasive, and the U.S. health-care system will need to evolve. AI can augment and improve the health-care system to serve more patients with fewer doctors. However, health innovators need to be careful to design a system that enhances doctors' capabilities, rather than replace them with technology and also to avoid reproducing human biases. A recent study published in Nature (in collaboration with Google) reports that Google AI detects breast cancer better than human doctors. Babylon Health, the AI-based mobile primary care system implemented in the United Kingdom in 2013, is coming to the U.S. Health-care is an industry in need of AI assistance due to a shortage of doctors and physician burnout.