The clinical judgements and intuitions of doctors cannot easily be structured into data, meaning an AI cannot be trained to develop these skills.

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Pro: Patients are often unable to fully explain and convey their symptoms to doctors. Being able to truly understand how a patient is feeling, therefore, requires intuition and empathy.

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Pro: Identifying effective treatments often requires doctors to be creative and think outside the box. AI systems will simply be trained with techniques that are already widely used.

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Con: 'Artificial intuition' is a growing branch of AI development. If successful, they will be able to create AI systems capable of using intuition as human doctors do.

Should human doctors be replaced by automated ones?

The clinical judgements and intuitions of doctors cannot easily be structured into data, meaning an AI cannot be trained to develop these skills.

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Patients are often unable to fully explain and convey their symptoms to doctors. Being able to truly understand how a patient is feeling, therefore, requires intuition and empathy.

Identifying effective treatments often requires doctors to be creative and think outside the box. AI systems will simply be trained with techniques that are already widely used.

'Artificial intuition' is a growing branch of AI development. If successful, they will be able to create AI systems capable of using intuition as human doctors do.

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The clinical judgements and intuitions of doctors cannot easily be structured into data, meaning an AI cannot be trained to develop these skills.

Pro claim 1

Patients are often unable to fully explain and convey their symptoms to doctors. Being able to truly understand how a patient is feeling, therefore, requires intuition and empathy.

Pro claim 2

Identifying effective treatments often requires doctors to be creative and think outside the box. AI systems will simply be trained with techniques that are already widely used.

Con claim 1

'Artificial intuition' is a growing branch of AI development. If successful, they will be able to create AI systems capable of using intuition as human doctors do.