Eric Topol,
founder and director of Scripps Research
Translational Institute and Reading
Frames author, discusses the future of
the doctor-patient bond in an era of
artificial intelligence–driven medicine.
One recent case, in which a scientist claims his submitted manuscript was rejected despite a lack of actual plagiarism, highlights the limitations of automated tools.
An artificial intelligence program called a neural network exceeds radiologists’ ability to detect malignancies, but more testing is needed before using the program clinically.
As artificial life forms become more sophisticated, we propose a simple list of criteria to determine whether synthetic biological organisms and robots are living beings.
