Four Roles for Artificial Intelligence in the Medical System
By W. Nicholson Price How will artificial intelligence (AI) change medicine? AI, powered by “big data” in health, promises to transform medical practice, but specifics remain inchoate. Reports that AI performs certain tasks at the level of specialists stoke worries that AI will “replace” physicians. These worries are probably overblown; AI is unlikely to replace many physicians in the foreseeable future. A more…

