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Artificial intelligence offers the insurance industry exciting new services and solutions. The burgeoning technology also carries new risks.

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Potential risks, liabilities of using AI in medicine

Many technologists and doctors are ambivalent about how artificial intelligence could be applied to health care.

By Darius Tahir | May 17, 2023 at 09:00 AM
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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tweeted recently that AI is "going to replace what doctors do — hearing symptoms and making diagnoses — before it changes what nurses do — helping patients get up and handle themselves in the hospital.” (vegefox.com/Adobe Stock) Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tweeted recently that AI is “going to replace what doctors do — hearing symptoms and making diagnoses — before it changes what nurses do — helping patients get up and handle themselves in the hospital.” (vegefox.com/Adobe Stock)

Artificial intelligence now seems poised to alter business and society, and that includes health care. But what are the potential risks and liabilities of allowing AI to manage patient outcomes?

To be sure, the companies pushing the latest AI technology — known as “generative AI” — are piling it on: Google and Microsoft want to bring types of so-called large language models to health care.

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