Patient comfort with AI-driven health care hinges on provider oversight

More than half of patients (56%) are comfortable with artificial intelligence (AI) making diagnosis or treatment decisions when their health care provider can change or override them, but that figure falls to just 9% when AI makes those decisions without provider review, according to new data from the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America. The nationally representative survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults found similar patterns in patient comfort with AI used to interpret diagnostic images or make medication decisions.