Statement on artificial intelligence surgery by women-in-surgery - Italia: can artificial intelligence be the great equalizer in surgery?

The problem with patient avatars and emotions

“…The problem with autonomous actions replacing humans is not limited to non-interventional healthcare providers [8,9] . Surgeons are becoming increasingly aware of the possibility that more autonomously functioning surgical robots will be able to do more procedures and theoretically be able to replace surgeons, interventional radiologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, and gastroenterologists entirely [10] . This possibility is tempered by the fact that humans will need to be trained in interventional procedures such as surgery and endoscopy and will need to be able to take over if future robots have technical issues.…”

“…The Editorial Board of Artificial Intelligence Surgery has recently published a White Paper discussing the need for a new designation of risk for surgical devices that utilize AI [10] . Whether or not the level of risk should call for increased or decreased regulation is currently at the center of the debate.…”