posted on 2024-01-07, 20:48authored byJOSHUA JAMES HATHERLEY
Recently, a growing number of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine have be-gun to suggest that the use of AI systems, particularly machine learning (ML) systems, is likely to humanise the practice of medicine by substantially improving the quality of clinician-patient relationships. In this thesis, however, I argue that medical ML systems are more likely to negatively impact these relationships than to improve them. In particular, I argue that the use of medical ML systems is likely to comprise the quality of trust, care, empathy, understanding, and communication between clinicians and patients.
History
Principal supervisor
Robert Sparrow
Additional supervisor 1
Justin Oakley
Year of Award
2024
Department, School or Centre
School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies