If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

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Pro: During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.

Should human doctors be replaced by automated ones? (ANTI-Automation)

If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

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During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.

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If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

Pro claim 1

During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.