60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care

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I chose to focus on this article in this review because the medical field is often times paving the way as far as integrating innovative and thoughtful designs into their practices. This paper is regarding a Pew Research Study on how Americans feels about AI being involved in the healthcare system, and many are against it. With AI being such a prevalent topic in emerging technology I thought it would be insightful to read these findings to give me basis for how Americans feel about AI being involved in personal and intimate matters.

I find this study to be very interesting in the range of results they received. In topics that don’t concern the ‘human’ element of care such as skin cancer screening “65% of U.S. adults say they would want Al to be used in their own skin cancer screening” (Tyson, 2023). But in most topics concerning a ‘human’ element of care the participants either didn’t believe the AI would help or they don’t want it involved at all. In a place that is so intimate, such as the hospital or doctors Office the ‘human’ care is why you’re there. In the question stated in the last paragraph 57% of participants believes that the patient-provider relationship would get worse if AI was involved in disease diagnosis or treatment plans (Tyson, 2023). This study is a fascinating showing that people care about people, and that even if AI may help in mitigating issues they don’t want it involved in their personal care. Knowing this, how can design use innovation and AI in ways in which it doesn’t become a hinderance to the human interaction that is so necessary in intimate situations?

Source

Tyson, A. (2023, February 22). 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable with provider relying on AI in their own health care. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/02/22/60-of-americans-would-be-uncomfortable-with-provider-relying-on-ai-in-their-own-health-care/#:~:text=But%20there%20is%20wide%20concern,say%20it%20would%20be%20better.