From theWashington Post:
The robots learned to manipulate needles, tie knots and suture wounds on their own.
Approximately876,000 robot-assisted surgerieswere conducted in 2020.
Slim, precise instruments can spare nerve damage.
Researchers have demonstrated how AI can train robots to mimic human doctors to perform surgeries.Johns Hopkins University
But robotics are typically guided manually by a surgeon with a controller.
The surgeon is always in charge.
How often will a tired, overworked doctor rubber-stamp whatever an AI produces without scrutinizing it closely?
At certain times the only corroboration required was that the target was a male.
Things can go awry when humans become complacent and are not sufficiently in the loop.
Healthcare is another field with high stakescertainly higher than the consumer market.
If Gmail summarizes an email incorrectly, it is not the end of the world.
Who in that case is liable?
The anatomy of every patient differs, as does the way a disease behaves in patients.
The idea that AI will ever be infallible is hard to take seriously when no technology is ever perfect.
Who do you punish when something goes wrong, who has their medical license revoked?
AI models are crude simulacrums of humans, behave sometimes unpredictably, and have no moral compass.
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