Article ID: CBB070281623

Don’t touch my stuff: Historicising resistance to AI and algorithmic computer technologies in medicine (2021)

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This paper historicises the criticisms and backlash from within medicine against new computer technologies in the clinic. Physicians' reactions to proposals for the implementation of algorithmic technologies in the clinic ranged from enthusiastic to cautionary to critical from as early as the 1960s. Clinicians were suspicious of these technologies as they threatened their professional expertise. I argue that these discontent reactions from doctors demonstrate an implicit struggle for authority over clinical spaces and with regards to medicine's place within society more generally. Drawing on Foucault's concept of discursive rules and their function within a closed community, I recover the forgotten debate to include or reject AI and its predecessor technologies of expert systems and neural networks. This paper explains how and why justifications for and against the applicability of AI to the clinic are underpinned by questions of medical authority. I conclude with an inquiry into the transformative possibilities of partisanship.

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Authors & Contributors
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Kaspar Beelen
Massimo Ciccozzi
Pedrosa, Juan Manuel
Rachel Adams
Kum Hee Choy
Concepts
Human-machine interaction
Artificial intelligence
Technology and society
Medicine and society
Machine learning
Computers and computing
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
South Africa
United Kingdom
Arizona (U.S.)
Argentina
Japan
Institutions
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (Argentina)
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