There is a lot of talk about it and almost everyone, at least once, has wondered how everyday life and work will change with the advent of AI, artificial intelligence. There is a working category that is experiencing, perhaps with more fear than the others, the advent of these new technologies and is experimenting with the so-called AI fear, the fear of artificial intelligence.
According to a recent study carried out by eMarketeronly in the USA, more than 7 out of 10 doctors (71%) don’t want to deal with current technology because they don’t know how to use it and they fear it, because they are convinced that one day it can even replace them. Doctors’ anxieties and fears are inevitably passed on to their patients: in fact, according to what was indicated by Healthcare Dive81% of people present within hospital departments prefer to deal with a professional rather than with an algorithm or an avatar.
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The fear of artificial intelligence and the Italian healthcare world
The general scenario also involves Europe and, in detail, also Italy where, second Medscape only 10% of doctors consider themselves knowledgeable about the uses and potential of artificial intelligence and believes he is ready to experience it in everyday life. In light of what has been analyzed so far, an almost spontaneous question arises: is it possible to reverse the trend to ensure that artificial intelligence can blossom within the medical-healthcare universe?
Giacinto Fiore and Pasquale Viscanti, founder of Artificial Intelligence Explained Simple and creators of AI Week (aiweek.it), recently entered into a strategic partnership with IMF, Federation of Italian Medical-Scientific Societiesper promote and enhance the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector to transform it into an important resource and not let it remain a cumbersome bogeyman instead.
“Artificial intelligence will help us to better carry out our role as doctors – declared in this regard Loreto Gesualdo, president of the Federation of Italian Medical Scientific Societies -. There are many case histories to support what has just been stated, but the first that comes to mind concerns Big Data, or AI that helps us collect data to transform into useful information for studying many pathologies and changing their history”.
This is just one of the keys to understanding that AI can offer: thanks to its correct application and the right use of algorithms it is possible, for example, to study molecules that have been put aside until now because they had no use whatsoever and which can instead be reused for therapies related to different pathologies. Yes they can generate digital twinson which the side effects of a therapeutic response can be tested.
WHO’s position on artificial intelligence
Positive sides therefore, but there are also numerous critical issues to consider and manage, as the Director General of the WHO (World Health Organization) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently declared: “Artificial intelligence is already playing a role in diagnosis and clinical caredrug development, disease surveillance, epidemic response and health system management. The future of healthcare is digital, and we must do everything we can to promote universal access to these innovations and prevent them from becoming another driver of inequality.”
In fact, the WHO strongly believes in the importance of promoting digital frontiers and powering an AI ecosystem for safety, equity and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals, contributing to a healthier world. However, the desire to work towards a future in which artificial intelligence improves health, ensuring that no one is left behind, is always well underlined.
