“As the true grail will bring you life, the false grail will take it from you.”
These are the words uttered by the Grail Knight in the movie “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade”.
I believe these words apply to to Healthcare’s future use of Artificial Intelligence.
You see, within Healthcare, the Holy Grail of AI and Big Data is to improve health, extending both quantity and quality of life.
However, as digital technologies have progressed – particularly in the areas of TV and Social Media, we have become more sedentary, more obese, and more consumer driven.
Lets face it, if history is an indication, it’s a good bet that most of AI and Big Data techniques will be devoted to making us more efficient consumers and more sedentary, not more efficient biological machines.
So, personally, do I think there is an AI-based Holy Grail of healthcare?
Yes. But I guarantee it’s mixed in with a hundred false grails.
Choose wisely.