When faced with new, complex phenomena, humans frantically seek to predict their impact
on the individual and society. The more complex the phenomenon, the more difficult
it is to understand rapidly, and this situation leads to catastrophic predictions,
even more the phenomena concerned are increasingly likely to be products of medicine
or science. When faced with novelty or the unknown, humans tend to be afraid, to frighten
each other, to ignore reality or to forget their own best interests. Artificial intelligence
(AI), particularly in the context of internal medicine, provides a perfect example
of this, its uniqueness acting as a “sword of Damocles”. It is the role of bioethics
now to deal with those complex phenomenon, which means to make these predictions to
find solutions, but without any kind of ideology. So the criticism we make in this
letter concerns some methods used to reach this goal, and what the method should definitely
be.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 07, 2018
Accepted:
January 24,
2018
Received:
January 23,
2018
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