Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful technology that can potentially transform medicine. Health professionals must understand the risks and issues in order to make informed decisions. This video synthesizes information from our position paper, The medico-legal lens on AI use by Canadian physicians.
Knowing what we’re talking about when we’re talking about AI can help physicians understand whether a given tool really is AI.
What exactly is AI? (1:39)
Not all AI has the same risk (2:20)
We can measure the risk of different AI tools by thinking in terms of two factors: the patient impact and the tool’s degree of autonomy.
Bias exists in AI (1:58)
AI can get things wrong. The data used to train AI tools may be skewed or out of date, or may contain false information.
Use case: AI scribes (1:59)
AI scribes are common in clinical practice. If you’re considering using a scribe, there are questions to ask first.
Using AI appropriately will take a village (1:47)
At CMPA, we want to see AI use evolve in a way that doesn’t place the onus entirely on physicians.
Full video: Canadian physicians using AI (10:24)
