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AI, robotics and healthcare: It's all about augmentation, not replacement (via Passle)

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If I see a robot coming to kill me, I'll just look for the off-switch or how I can unplug it". I'm ever so slightly paraphrasing Pete Trainor, one of yesterday's speakers at Wired Health 2018, but this was the jist of what he said to me over a coffee as we discussed AI, robotics and its place in the the world. And if I can draw a theme from yesterday's excellent Wired Health event held at the very impressive Francis Crick Institute, it's that AI, robotics and digital technology are not here to replace people in healthcare provision. Rather, they are here to augment and "scale-up" the amount that a healthcare professional can do. This was a theme which was alighted on by a number of speakers.