I'm a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me

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Takeaway: Bad AI is bad. Good AI is good.

We're perhaps middling at diagnosing neurology issues and we're terrible at treating them. Absolutely useless. If we haven't moved the needle in the last 50 years, then let's try to use AI to do it.

There'll be casualties along the way, but it's a lot better than being stuck in the dark ages blindly trying to repair neurological problems with stone knives and bearskins for another 3 generations.

It's extremely premature to be using this tech in critical real-world situations like this. This sort of thing makes me very nervous about using hospital services. Here's hoping that I don't have to be the next guinea pig.

> They just gave patients a seemingly random score that nobody understood, on a scale of one to infinity.

I mean obviously it's broken UX and/or poor architecture overall. That's not an AI-creep problem.

That's certainly bad UI!

But I was talking at a deeper level. I don't trust the use of this tech in things as critical as medical treatment. I think it's far too green for that.

That hospitals are beginning to incorporate it reduces my trust in hospitals.

Actual article: https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/nursing-ai-hospital...

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