AI can be an amazing tool in healthcare, as a double check. For example, assume a doctor thinks you have something. Right now you could have
A simple non invasive diagnostic procedure that costs X that is 90% accurate.
A complex invasive diagnostic procedure that costs 10X that is 98% accurate.
Doctor will always suggest the first one and then see if you need the second one based on other factors. AI can be a great tool as a double checker. You go in, do the simple test, and then you run your results and your inputs through a model and that’ll give you a second probability, and that could help determine that you should go in for the more invasive one.
If it’s done that way it’ll be a great tool, but AI should never be used as the only check or to replace real proven tests. At the end of the day it’s still saying “From my information I’ve trained on, the answer to the question of 2+2 is probably 4”, it does not do any actual calculations. Only probabilities from trained data. So great at double checking, but bad at being the single source.