Medical AI and Clinician Surveillance

Ifeoma Ajunwa and two coauthors caution that clinicians have reason to be wary of AI models trained on their data, warning that such model might come to be tools of surveillance. For instance, the authors note that AI-based online messaging monitoring "could be used to monitor clinicians' responsiveness, tone, and diagnostic reasoning," which could in turn lead to greater micromanagement of clinician-patient communications. 

Read Ajunwa and her coauthors' perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine.