Prescription AI
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already shifting the way we understand, diagnose, and treat disease, and in the near future, will become an integral part of every aspect of healthcare, from diagnosis to treatment to end-of-life care. Prescription: AI explores the promise of artificial intelligence to personalize, democratize, and advance medicine—and interrogates the potential dangers of handing over decision-making to data and machines.
Illustrations by Zack Rosebrugh
- 60 IS THE NEW 00101011100101110Robots will probably help care for you when you’re oldQuartz • September 11, 2018
- GHOSTS IN THE MACHINESCould AI allow you to live forever?Quartz • September 11, 2018
- AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE ALGORITHM AWAYDon’t share your health data with insurance companies just for the perksQuartz • September 11, 2018
- TAKE TWO BOTS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNINGDoctors are known for their poor bedside manner. Robots might be the answerQuartz • September 10, 2018
- THE BOTPERATING TABLEHow AI changed organ donation in the USQuartz • September 10, 2018
- JUST WHAT THE ALGORITHM ORDEREDWho’s to blame when a machine botches your surgery?Quartz • September 10, 2018
- MACHINES WITH MEDICAL DEGREESThe way we use mammograms is seriously flawed but AI could change thatQuartz • September 6, 2018
- THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOWThe first AI approved to diagnose disease is tackling blindness in rural areasQuartz • September 6, 2018
- HEAL THYSELF, ALGORITHMIf AI is going to be the world’s doctor, it needs better textbooksQuartz • September 6, 2018
- IT’S NOT AI TUMORWe trained an algorithm to detect cancer in just two hoursQuartz • September 6, 2018
- This is how computers “predict the future”Quartz • September 5, 2018
- ART OF INTELLIGENCEMachines know when someone’s about to attempt suicide. How should we use that information?Quartz • September 5, 2018
- LAB CODEAI can spot the pain from a disease some doctors still think is fakeQuartz • August 9, 2018
- GET A SECOND OPINIONAlexa is a terrible doctorQuartz • July 12, 2018