Do You Trust AI With Your Health Care?

PJ Media ^ | 06/16/2023 | Lincoln Brown

[SeekAndFind]

I’ve only been in an ICU once as a patient. I developed sudden chest pain and went to the ER. The funny thing about chest pain is that it gets you right to the front of the line at the ER. I had been there on a previous visit with a deep cut on my hand and had to sit with my hand over a garbage can so I wouldn’t get blood all over the floor. As it later turned out, the chest pain was actually caused by an ulcer that was creating reflux. The ulcer was caused by my job, but that’s another story. But I did spend a night in the ICU. My favorite memory was of my wife, who worked on that very unit, telling all her co-workers, “If he starts to snore, just close the door.” That’s what’s known as medical humor.

I learned one thing during my night in the ICU: unless you are unconscious, you don’t get any rest. I was checked on constantly, monitored, and even given a shot at one point. I was glad to be discharged so I could go home and get some rest. But I was still impressed. My nurses were on top of the game the entire time.

In addition to obtaining a degree, nurses go through regular training and take continuing education courses. And after five or six years, they develop a certain savvy when it comes to spotting problems with their patients. It is something that can only come with experience. It may be something obvious like pale skin, or a slow increase or decrease in heart rate or respirations.

Even a moment of confusion in a patient can tell a nurse volumes.

[GingisK]

It really couldn’t be any worse than what I already have.

[cymbeline]

“But I do know danger when I see it, and I see great danger in AI ...”

You are correct about that but the AI is only a part of the enormity of our online world. The whole thing is dangerous.

[Chicory]

Funny how we no longer hear GIGO.... it was and would remain an important concept if it still existed.

Personally, I think if I have no grandchildren, I would rather go to Chile when I grow very old. I hope they will be about as advanced as the US but without the AI stuff.

[Jim W N]

AI, like most things, can be used for good or evil. AI of itself, like most things, is neutral. The issue is who is controlling AI programming and application.

Right now, it seems to be applied for helpful things.

But the Bible show us that sometime in the not-so-distant future, AFTER the "great catching up" into heaven of believers in Christ, there is some kind of machine called "the Image of the Beast".

they made an image to the beast...the image of the beast was given life that it should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Rev. 13:14-15.

Nasty stuff. AI or some AI hybrid is in there somewhere.