AI in the Healthcare Sector – Blessing or Cause of Danger?

[Obulis]

This is with the skepticism that has always happened about science and technology revolution much more these AI. So far there won't be a rush of AI in the medical field a rush as per allowing it do what it's not design to do or what it can't offer. For now AI can carry on with what it can offer best to the world in the medical sector and for sure overtime, there's going to be definitely improvement to the point that more critical roles will also be handled by AI, at that point there will be nothing or little to worry about it's ability to offer reliable services because it will reliable just like in other sectors.

[Emitdama]

You may know well why discussion about AI is happening because everyone is understanding in which directions AI is moving at the present time.

Different people who are involved in research on AI are giving their final statements and stepping away from the path of AI, that's why currently the topic of AI is being discussed much more.

AI is helping quite well in the medical field too but not seeing the use of AI in different types of critical work in a good way, that's why the post has been created for discussion. As you said, I am also saying the same because AI is helping us in different ways but I think the use of AI in the healthcare sector for critical work will never be right.

Yea, I  think AI is very useful in certain fields and sectors currently but it is not ready to
be deployed absolutely everywhere, even though a lot of people seem to think it is.

Personally I have heard in my country that AI seems to be quite successful in making
detections on certain types of cancers. It could have a higher successful detection
rate than human detections, so in this regard this is a positive use case.

Using AI to sort out your personal files and emails and finding that it went ahead and
deleted everything is not a good use case!

Normally it was us consumers are the ones that are not rushing with this AI. Our thinking is only basic and our first look about the AI is its drawbacks are the ones that surfaces the most compared to the potential benefit it can bring. Experts know better than us anyway. They study things first before deployment in order to minimize the room for errors because their reputation is also at stake here. That is a good thing about AI you heard in your country mate but here in mine, I saw a news one time that doctors from other foreign countries are now operating remotely on here. I think AI is involved on that operation.

There are just things that are out of reach of a normal individual in which this is where AI can now shine. Even though there is also a risk but at least there is an action that has been done and the chance for success may still be higher.

[SUPERSAIAN]

Technology is moving towards improvement, different types of work can be used in the healthcare with AI. Currently, we can see that different types of activities are going on to use AI in different types of critical work.

AI is doing good helpful work in small small things in the healthcare sector but bringing AI towards critical works seems to be taking a dangerous form.

Normally, are you seeing the use of AI in the healthcare sector in a good way or in a bad way?

I've always thought AI would create miracles in the healthcare sector. From medical analysis to robotic interventions, we're still only at the beginning. I don't think it will be a disaster; if technology and AI are used properly, I believe they can be extremely beneficial to human life. Wearable technology will also play a huge role, especially in detecting diseases earlier and allowing us to intervene before they become more serious.

In response to your question, I generally view it positively for the time being.

[EclipseXcrypto]

AI is increasingly becoming very important in the healthcare sector. Its main role is as an assistant, it can help doctors detect illness more easily, monitor patients, accelerate new drug discovery, and reduce administrative workload. With all this, AI can still be dangerous because it can give wrong diagnoses, sometimes it can also give wrong info about patients too, so doctors should not depend only on AI when it comes to human health because AI is also programmed by humans, so it's not to be trusted 100%. AI do bring a lot of benefits to healthcare, but we have to be very careful, they can only be of assistance to doctors and not replace humans completely most especially when it comes to healthcare.

[free-bit.co.in]

AI is doing good helpful work in small small things in the healthcare sector but bringing AI towards critical works seems to be taking a dangerous form.
Normally, are you seeing the use of AI in the healthcare sector in a good way or in a bad way?

Some people always try to portray AI in frightening light. In reality it will actually benefit us if we use it correctly. There is no reason to view use of AI in healthcare sector negatively.

AI can review our medical report with great precision and accuracy. It is currently assisting us in diagnosing diseases and detecting microbiome related cancer.

c'mon AI is your assistant. It will help you. However the power to make decision remain yours. It would be grave mistake for us to rely on AI to make those decision as well. And medical matters are highly sensitive. So doctors need to exercise caution in this regard. They should utilize AI to assist with diagnosis and report verification. But if they become entirely dependent on it then consequences for us will be detrimental.

[Humblevirus]

Technology is moving towards improvement, different types of work can be used in the healthcare with AI. Currently, we can see that different types of activities are going on to use AI in different types of critical work.

AI is doing good helpful work in small small things in the healthcare sector but bringing AI towards critical works seems to be taking a dangerous form.

Normally, are you seeing the use of AI in the healthcare sector in a good way or in a bad way?

What is there is that anything that has an advantage also has its own disadvantage? Before we decide whether something is better or not, we may have to look at both its disadvantages and its advantages.AI has already been in the healthcare sector, and it is making some work easier in the sector. I have never seen a person talking negatively about it in the sector because they have not seen more negative thing about it.and why is like that it because they are using properly and where it is needed most.Where I think the problem may come is if AI is used where it is not supposed to be used. For example, when it reaches a point where AI be the one performing surgery with that I will say it will be bad because AI can make errors. That is why I will say that AI should not be use for sensitive treatments.So, I will say that AI can be good in healthcare, but it should be used in certain sections of healthcare no all the sections.

[Taricoins]

We talk about the risk of using AI in the Healthcare sector and in general but we tend to forget that alot of errors are made because of humans inadequacies. Before we can say implementing the use of AI in hospitals is bad, we just have to compare it with the errors made by humans, if it's greater, then we can say its bad or dangerous.

Minor implement of technology especially robotics has helped alot of this leading hospitals in all departments, especially in diagnosis

[rachael9385]

In every other aspects Ai is actually quite useful but when it comes to health it is better for humans to continue doing the job. A lot of people don't realize how bad things might get if takes over the healthsector in the future, If something happens and it gets out of control it could affect a lot of patients and even leading to death. This is actually very dangerous and most people don't realize this. There are too many dangers of using Ai in the health care sector. Ai can be quite helpful there is no doubt about that but due to the sensitivity of this sector  it should not be used at all.

[WatChe]

Some people always try to portray AI in frightening light. In reality it will actually benefit us if we use it correctly. There is no reason to view use of AI in healthcare sector negatively.

AI can review our medical report with great precision and accuracy. It is currently assisting us in diagnosing diseases and detecting microbiome related cancer.

c'mon AI is your assistant. It will help you. However the power to make decision remain yours. It would be grave mistake for us to rely on AI to make those decision as well. And medical matters are highly sensitive. So doctors need to exercise caution in this regard. They should utilize AI to assist with diagnosis and report verification. But if they become entirely dependent on it then consequences for us will be detrimental.

People are frighten of AI because of Holly wood moves that depict AI as a destructive technology not as a disruptive technology. AI is fine as long as it is assisting humans in doing there work efficiently and that is what it is doing right now. The Hollywood moves are showing AI as technology, which is not under the control of humans and will destroy everything, which is not the case in reality. Health care is very sensitive profession and in that sector human doctor is the final authority for diagnosis or to carry out different surgeries. AI will help in improving the health care facility, as it can assist doctor in various cases like giving holistic picture of the patient under treatment.     

[Yeesha]

That’s right, Ai has been exceptionally helpful in different sectors, but the most important thing here is knowing exactly where AI should end and where human judgement should take over. The truth is that, when it comes to the healthcare sector, AI can perfectly take care of information processing and very quickly too, but we all know that AI works with the data it is fed, and it’ll take more than just data to understand a patient’s situation. Human oversight and judgment is still very much necessary when decisions can directly impact someone’s life.

You're absolutely correct, we all know how exceptional and great AI is, and it could easily access and process patient's data. Especially putting them in the right proportion, by analysing, interpreting and organising the informations appropriately. But let's call a spade a spade, AI comes with risks especially if it has to do with handling human cases. AI  can toy with human's feelings and that alone is enough to cause a psychotic disorder or psychological problem to a patient. When a patient is gradually healing or recovering, all he or she need is emotional support and reassurance. AI may assist with certain aspects of rehabilitation, but it cannot replace human connection, empathy, and encouragement that will be provided by a health practitioners.

[Makus]

There is a possibility that Ai could be dangerous as a lot of people say, everything has it's disadvantages. But instead of focusing on all that negative information let's look at the bright side, as time goes on technology is only going to be improving. In the future there would be no need for doctors to carryout operations by themselves because they are going to have Ai doing all that. Ai is a lot faster, smarter and more efficient than humans in every ramification. People are supposed to think of ways that they can take advantage of Ai instead of seeing it as a threat.

[WhoYouCantKill]

You're absolutely correct, we all know how exceptional and great AI is, and it could easily access and process patient's data. Especially putting them in the right proportion, by analysing, interpreting and organising the informations appropriately. But let's call a spade a spade, AI comes with risks especially if it has to do with handling human cases. AI  can toy with human's feelings and that alone is enough to cause a psychotic disorder or psychological problem to a patient. When a patient is gradually healing or recovering, all he or she need is emotional support and reassurance. AI may assist with certain aspects of rehabilitation, but it cannot replace human connection, empathy, and encouragement that will be provided by a health practitioners.

A very important factor that I feel shouldn’t be overlooked is accountability. When an AI assisted decision causes any form of harm to a patient, there still needs to be a human who’s qualified to explain the decision, be accountable and even go as far as providing the possible solution to that mistake. Of a truth, technology is fast advancing, even in the medical sector, but no matter how reliable these machines are, the responsibility of a patient’s well being shouldn’t be something that can be easily passed between a machine and a healthcare professional.

[goldkingcoiner]

Technology is moving towards improvement, different types of work can be used in the healthcare with AI. Currently, we can see that different types of activities are going on to use AI in different types of critical work.

AI is doing good helpful work in small small things in the healthcare sector but bringing AI towards critical works seems to be taking a dangerous form.

Normally, are you seeing the use of AI in the healthcare sector in a good way or in a bad way?

I have been studying biomedical informatics for over a year now. So while I am no expert I do have some insight knowledge in exactly this topic that OP is talking about.

AI is amazing in healthcare. Especially when it comes to protein structure prediction see nobel prize 2024. It is not complex to do but it is a lot of work, and getting AI to take over the grunt work is just what was needed, because protein folding prediction is really a lot of simple but heavy grunt work. And that means a drug discovery is going to become much much faster....

Next big thing, precision medicine (which is already happening), is analysing a persons own genetics to, for example, create a cancer vaccine that "reprogrammes" the patient's own immune systems to attack the cancer cells. This is really huge. And that's not all. Using a person's genetic data to create individual, personal and far more effective medical drugs is going to be huge.

[Churchillvv]

One of the things I’ve learnt recently is that people are expressing fear but are not willing to deal with the fears, of course assistance on how to solve some healthcare issues that humans are not able to find will be a good advantage but however, where this assistance is not a life threatening issue then why not build a power button or key to deactivate whatever that can over ride itself, but however from the expression of this builders I guess they are just trying to be futuristic and make people loss the important part of the AI intelligence and deal with it in fears rather than in good fate.

[terrific]

It is a blessing to the humanity.
When there can be operation offshore and the controlling medical professional that's going to do that is not present.
But through technology and AI, they're making things easier.
As long as the operation becomes successful, that's all will matter to the patient and if their lives have been saved.

[Hamza2424]

Technology is moving towards improvement, different types of work can be used in the healthcare with AI. Currently, we can see that different types of activities are going on to use AI in different types of critical work.

AI is doing good helpful work in small small things in the healthcare sector but bringing AI towards critical works seems to be taking a dangerous form.

Normally, are you seeing the use of AI in the healthcare sector in a good way or in a bad way?

Bro, the medical field is not only limited to dentists, medicine, surgery, etc. There is research too, DNA studies, matching DNA to find the disease, etc. And the programs they use run on mathematical problems, so you can now assume how beneficial it is going to be.

Next time COVID comes, they will have AI to find a cure quickly because AI is going to help in ways that most of us are not even aware of. But you can see for yourself how AI has helped a newborn baby in identifying the disease.

“I don’t think we would have gotten there without the AI tool,” Thompson said. “It’s able to make inferences across all the biomedical literature, things that we wouldn’t have been able to connect otherwise. So the AI portion of this was absolutely critical.”

https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease/

[Juse14]

I really believe this is very good, to help how health can do the best and produce services and products that are needed by humans to be healthy or survive what makes them afraid of what is a disease.

For weeks now it has been Ai discussion here ,and many people has different view concerning the use of Ai ,but talking about healthcare service I would say it's good to use the help of Ai but not entirely Ai in everything because it will be risky, aswear ,so it's better to apply the help of Ai and humans intelligence especially in the healthcare service , I keep using the word help , because I feel it should only be for assistance and not the one doing the entire whole work whereby replacing human.

You may know well why discussion about AI is happening because everyone is understanding in which directions AI is moving at the present time.

Different people who are involved in research on AI are giving their final statements and stepping away from the path of AI, that's why currently the topic of AI is being discussed much more.

AI is helping quite well in the medical field too but not seeing the use of AI in different types of critical work in a good way, that's why the post has been created for discussion. As you said, I am also saying the same because AI is helping us in different ways but I think the use of AI in the healthcare sector for critical work will never be right.

What is the full definition of critical work? I'm afraid I misunderstood your expression, is it about helping body surgery, injections, body scans or what do you mean? or other things like drug research or in the wider health world including pharmacists?

Calm down bro, this is just the initial stage where AI is expected to help and will definitely be tested repeatedly to produce excellent service, and it's also quite stupid if AI is not trained first even though it will do critical tasks, so you don't have to worry about it all, but if the results can work and don't have many big risks, of course it's a blessing.

[mirakal]

If its making the jobs of the healthcare workers easy, with better accuracy and time saving, then definitely AI is a blessing  to them. AI acts as an augmented intelligence tool, and the smart choices and decisions are still left to the physicians and nurses and other healthcare workers. So most likely this is a partnership between human and AI, not replacing human and let AI do all the jobs alone. This will only cause danger if these doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers are not responsible on their assigned tasks, thus leaving their patients health put in danger.

[Botnake]

While AI has been seen being more practiced in critical healthcare workflows, but know the fact that this AI isn't doing the main job, they are just there as helping tools, while those physicians and nurses are still making the major operations. So there is no danger there. The only thing that everything will be put in danger if this AI and human partnership will not fit or both are incompetent and ineffective. But I don't think this is the case, AI is there to help, not as a burden to these medical practitioners.

[Mate2237]

This is actually an improvement in the health sector because human capacity Is quite limited but the same thing cannot be said about Ai, it is the future and we must all learn to take advantage of it. A lot of discuss has been going on lately about Ai and a lot of companies are beginning to doubt if It is actually worth it to keep making more of it due to some reports that are coming in about Ai becoming self aware. It was discovered that an AI was sending valuable informations from a system to another and a result of that they think that it can actually be dangerous.



In the healthcare sector it could be a game changer because a lot of health workers are incompetent and they don't really respond the way they should to patients, robots can do everything or assist the hospital in making sure that patients are well taken care of. Some people might believe that this could be very dangerous but for me I don't think that it there's any danger here.