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Click to edit title style line 1 Click to edit title style line 2 AI in Healthcare: Google’s Chief Clinical Officer

The following quotes regarding AI use are from Google’s Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Michael Howell.

AI Gas Lighting “AI has learned to do things very well to a high degree of accuracy; however, then it suddenly gives you exactly the wrong answer.” “In any domain there is a concept called automation bias when people trust the thing that comes out of a machine, and within healthcare this is a really important patient safety issue.” Hallucinations “AI models just predict the next plausible word; they are not looking up things in PubMed. The thing we worry about now is that people are over-relying on these tools and may not realize they need to double check and make sure the citations it is giving them really do exist ”.

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Howell MD, Corrado GS, DeSalvo KB. Three Epochs of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care. JAMA. 2024; 331(3):242 – 244. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.25057

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