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60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care
Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they would not want AI to help determine amount of pain medication they get
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- 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care
- Fewer than half in U.S. expect artificial intelligence in health and medicine to improve patient outcomes
- Americans more concerned that health care providers will adopt AI technologies too fast than too slowly
- Majority of U.S. adults would be uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on artificial intelligence
- 38% of Americans think that the use of AI in health care would improve patient outcomes
- Americans tilt positive on AI’s ability to reduce medical errors; greater concern around data security, patient-provider relationships
- 64% of Black adults say bias based on patients’ race or ethnicity is a major problem in health and medicine
- Among those who see a problem with bias based on race or ethnicity in medicine, 51% think relying more on AI would make the issue better
- About half of those who see racial or ethnic bias in health and medicine think the use of artificial intelligence would help address the issue
- Majority of Americans say they would want AI to be used in their own skin cancer screening
- 65% of U.S. adults say they would want AI to be used in their own skin cancer screening
- Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they would not want AI to help determine amount of pain medication they get
- U.S. adults aware of AI use in pain management more likely to want this in their own care than those unfamiliar with this technology
- 59% of Americans say they would not want AI-powered robots to be used in their own surgery
- Men more likely than women to say they would want surgical robots with AI to be used in their own care
- Large majority of Americans do not want to use an AI chatbot to support their mental health
- Many in U.S. support limits on the availability or use of AI chatbots for mental health wellness