Six of the country's largest physician organizations said Sept. 30 that claims that artificial intelligence is "inherently better informed than physicians" put patient trust at risk. The joint statement from the physician organizations came one day after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Washington, D.C., audience that AI can give patients a second opinion "much better informed than any doctor in the country."
The statement was signed by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Surgeons. These groups represent the doctors most families see for checkups, children's care, pregnancy and surgery.
