Data over dialogue: Why artificial intelligence is unlikely to humanise medicine

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07763v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:03:40 GMT
• Title: Data over dialogue: Why artificial intelligence is unlikely to humanise medicine
• Authors: Joshua Hatherley,
• Abstract summary: I argue that medical ML systems are more likely to negatively impact these relationships than to improve them.<n>In particular, I argue that the use of medical ML systems is likely to comprise the quality of trust, care, empathy, understanding, and communication between clinicians and patients.
• Score: 1.6317061277457001
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, a growing number of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine have be-gun to suggest that the use of AI systems, particularly machine learning (ML) systems, is likely to humanise the practice of medicine by substantially improving the quality of clinician-patient relationships. In this thesis, however, I argue that medical ML systems are more likely to negatively impact these relationships than to improve them. In particular, I argue that the use of medical ML systems is likely to comprise the quality of trust, care, empathy, understanding, and communication between clinicians and patients.

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