Castagno Simone, Khalifa Mohamed
Department of Interventional Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Front Artif Intell. 2020 Oct 21;3:578983. doi: 10.3389/frai.2020.578983. eCollection 2020.
The medical community is in agreement that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a radical impact on patient care in the near future. The purpose of this study is to assess the awareness of AI technologies among health professionals and to investigate their perceptions toward AI applications in medicine. A web-based Google Forms survey was distributed via the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust e-newsletter. Only staff working at the NHS Foundation Trust received an invitation to complete the online questionnaire. 98 healthcare professionals out of 7,538 (response rate 1.3%; CI 95%; margin of error 9.64%) completed the survey, including medical doctors, nurses, therapists, managers, and others. To investigate the prior knowledge of health professionals on the subject of AI as well as their attitudes and worries about its current and future applications. 64% of respondents reported never coming across applications of AI in their work and 87% did not know the difference between machine learning and deep learning, although 50% knew at least one of the two terms. Furthermore, only 5% stated using speech recognition or transcription applications on a daily basis, while 63% never utilize them. 80% of participants believed there may be serious privacy issues associated with the use of AI and 40% considered AI to be potentially even more dangerous than nuclear weapons. However, 79% also believed AI could be useful or extremely useful in their field of work and only 10% were worried AI will replace them at their job. Despite agreeing on the usefulness of AI in the medical field, most health professionals lack a full understanding of the principles of AI and are worried about potential consequences of its widespread use in clinical practice. The cooperation of healthcare workers is crucial for the integration of AI into clinical practice and without it the NHS may miss out on an exceptionally rewarding opportunity. This highlights the need for better education and clear regulatory frameworks.
医学界一致认为，人工智能（AI）在不久的将来将对患者护理产生根本性影响。本研究的目的是评估卫生专业人员对人工智能技术的认知，并调查他们对人工智能在医学中的应用的看法。通过伦敦皇家自由国民保健服务基金会信托基金的电子通讯分发了一份基于网络的谷歌表单调查问卷。只有在国民保健服务基金会信托基金工作的员工收到了完成在线问卷的邀请。7538名医疗保健专业人员中有98人（回复率1.3%；95%置信区间；误差幅度9.64%）完成了调查，包括医生、护士、治疗师、管理人员和其他人员。为了调查卫生专业人员对人工智能主题的先验知识，以及他们对其当前和未来应用的态度和担忧。64%的受访者表示在工作中从未遇到过人工智能的应用，87%的人不知道机器学习和深度学习之间的区别，尽管50%的人至少知道这两个术语中的一个。此外，只有5%的人表示每天使用语音识别或转录应用程序，而63%的人从未使用过。80%的参与者认为使用人工智能可能存在严重的隐私问题，40%的人认为人工智能可能比核武器更危险。然而，79%的人也认为人工智能在他们的工作领域可能有用或极其有用，只有10%的人担心人工智能会取代他们的工作。尽管大多数卫生专业人员认同人工智能在医疗领域的有用性，但他们对人工智能的原理缺乏全面了解，并担心其在临床实践中的广泛应用可能带来的后果。医护人员的合作对于将人工智能整合到临床实践中至关重要，没有他们的合作，国民保健服务体系可能会错过一个极其有益的机会。这凸显了更好的教育和明确的监管框架的必要性。
