Old-fashioned Intelligence Will Always Be Needed in Medicine

Kerrington Powell; Vinay Prasad

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2021.03.022

Old-fashioned Intelligence Will Always Be Needed in Medicine

Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Jul;7(4):685-686. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2021.03.022. Epub 2021 Apr 3.

Authors

Kerrington Powell¹, Vinay Prasad²

Affiliations

¹ College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: vinayak.prasad@ucsf.edu.

PMID: 33824086
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2021.03.022

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is new and enticing, but the idea that it will make physicians expendable is hyperbole. Medicine is a moral art that balances values and desires. Old-fashioned human intelligence will always be needed in medicine.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence
Humans
Intelligence
Medicine*
Physicians*