ReviewBMJ global health2023
Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence.
Review in BMJ global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Ethical considerations of AI integration in palliative care: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
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- Evolutionary Trajectories of Consciousness: From Biological Foundations to Technological Horizons.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning in medicine: global characteristics, readiness, and equity.Globalization and health · 2025Article
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- Global South-led responsible AI solutions to strengthen health systems: an emergent research landscape.Oxford open digital health · 2025Article
- Psychiatry in the age of AI: transforming theory, practice, and medical education.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Opportunities and Challenges of Chatbots in Ophthalmology: A Narrative Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Artificial Intelligence awarded two Nobel Prizes for innovations that will shape the future of medicine.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
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- Using Artificial Intelligence in Patient Care-Some Considerations for Doctors and Medical Regulators.Asian bioethics review · 2024Article
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Abstract
While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions in healthcare, it also poses a number of threats to human health and well-being via social, political, economic and security-related determinants of health. We describe three such main ways misused narrow AI serves as a threat to human health: through increasing opportunities for control and manipulation of people; enhancing and dehumanising lethal weapon capacity and by rendering human labour increasingly obsolescent. We then examine self-improving 'artificial general intelligence' (AGI) and how this could pose an existential threat to humanity itself. Finally, we discuss the critical need for effective regulation, including the prohibition of certain types and applications of AI, and echo calls for a moratorium on the development of self-improving AGI. We ask the medical and public health community to engage in evidence-based advocacy for safe AI, rooted in the precautionary principle.
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