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Artificial intelligence: Why it doesn’t belong in medicine

By The DO Staff

06.16.23

Yes, Dr. Google does work here. The newest wave of computerized intelligence has entered medicine in the form of artificial intelligence ancillary services such as ChatGPT and others. There is a move in corporate medicine for increased reliance on these information-gathering databases and to use their powerful information technology in real-time patient care. We already use decision trees and other algorithms to enhance our best practice strategies, so why is the new ChatGPT so dangerous in the practice of medicine?