Turakhia: Fully autonomous medical AI faces societal, not technical, barriers
Mintu Turakhia · a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice · Jan 2, 2019 · at 12:43
Mintu Turakhia argues that technical capabilities already exist to allow fully autonomous medical AI, making deployment a matter of societal acceptance and liability framing.
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“That's a societal issue. That's not a technical hurdle at this point.”
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