AI-Enabled Medical Education: Threads of Change, Promising Futures, and Risky Realities Across Four Potential Future Worlds.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rapid trajectory of artificial intelligence (AI) development and advancement is quickly outpacing society's ability to determine its future role. As AI continues to transform various aspects of our lives, one critical question arises for medical education: what will be the nature of education, teaching, and learning in a future world where the acquisition, retention, and application of knowledge in the traditional sense are fundamentally altered by AI?

Objective

The purpose of this perspective is to plan for the intersection of health care and medical education in the future.

Methods

We used GPT-4 and scenario-based strategic planning techniques to craft 4 hypothetical future worlds influenced by AI's integration into health care and medical education.

SUBMITTER: Knopp MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786199 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature