AI Has a Darker Side in Healthcare, Expert Says

Source Scout · MedPage Today reports: — Get ready for more "gigification" of healthcare jobs LOS ANGELES -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has its benefits in the healthcare sphere, but there are also pitfalls to watch out for, one expert said here at the Association of Health Care Journalists Fall Summit. "Digital technology has been used for decades to increase extraction of labor from workers and degrade working conditions," said Mishal Khan, PhD, senior researcher at the Technology and Work Program of the UC Berkeley Labor Center in California. "Even if they don't lose a single job to AI, it doesn't mean there are no harms to workers." Khan divided AI's uses in the workp….

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