Slate reports on the challenges associated with how to incorporate artificial intelligence technology with patient health services and delivery while also safeguarding patient safety. While AI is described as offering the potential for improved health, reduced costs, and increased access to medicine, it also carries significant challenges and unknowns. Currently, AI-based medical device trials include closely monitored patients trying an algorithm for a set period of time. The concern stems from AI’s ability to learn data and potentially introduce errors into medical delivery. The article states, "The potential for problems multiplies when an algorithm is learning from data from an entire hospital, or hospital system, or the collected data from an entire state or nation, not just a single patient."
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