AI is quicker and more efficient than human doctors when diagnosing patients.

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Pro: AI can make more accurate diagnoses and prescriptions by quickly analyzing a patient's medical record and relating it to large databases with laboratory, genetic, and demographic information.

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Con: AI systems trained with data that is unrepresentative of the general population are often noticeably worse at providing care for members of excuded minority groups.

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Pro: Human doctors take time to study patient data to diagnose and treat their patients. AI systems would only require an information input, allowing them to treat new patients at a much quicker rate.

Should human doctors be replaced by automated ones?

AI is quicker and more efficient than human doctors when diagnosing patients.

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Cons

AI can make more accurate diagnoses and prescriptions by quickly analyzing a patient's medical record and relating it to large databases with laboratory, genetic, and demographic information.

Human doctors take time to study patient data to diagnose and treat their patients. AI systems would only require an information input, allowing them to treat new patients at a much quicker rate.

AI systems trained with data that is unrepresentative of the general population are often noticeably worse at providing care for members of excuded minority groups.

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AI is quicker and more efficient than human doctors when diagnosing patients.

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AI can make more accurate diagnoses and prescriptions by quickly analyzing a patient's medical record and relating it to large databases with laboratory, genetic, and demographic information.

Pro claim 2, children below

Human doctors take time to study patient data to diagnose and treat their patients. AI systems would only require an information input, allowing them to treat new patients at a much quicker rate.

Con claim 1, children below

AI systems trained with data that is unrepresentative of the general population are often noticeably worse at providing care for members of excuded minority groups.