Artificial Intelligence (AI): What are the Impacts for Medicine?

Abstract

AI is our destiny, no one can prevent it anymore, just as it was with the Industrial Revolution of about 200 years ago or the introduction of computers a few decades ago. Nevertheless, there are many warning voices not to allow its eventual domination over humanity and its abuse. This issue also arises in medicine, where AI is in many ways superior to physicians. This concerns their extreme memory for information, their speed, their flexibility, and their ability to combine information. What can medicine do? Medical personnel should extend the qualities that are unique to humans: caring, empathy, intuition, inspiration, and above all, love. Those who have a narrowed consciousness and can be manipulated will be replaced by AI. Those who have a wide and open consciousness can become partners of the AI. This, by the way, concerns the whole humanity, whose division into these two groups is going on at present. The establishment of the AI is thus an immense but necessary challenge for all of us.