A majority of Americans said they would feel uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their medical care, a new poll reports.
There is a “significant discomfort” among Americans with the idea of AI being used in their health care, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted between Dec. 12 and 18, 2022, on 11,004 adults weighted to represent the adult U.S. population.
According to the results released on Wednesday, an overwhelming 60 percent of the respondents say they would feel uncomfortable with their health care providers relying on AI to “do things like diagnose disease and recommend treatments.” Just 39 percent say they would feel comfortable with AI handling those tasks….