Identity Threats as a Reason for Resistance to Artificial Intelligence: Survey Study With Medical Students and Professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) have increasingly spurred controversies among medical professionals as they start to outperform medical experts in tasks that previously required complex human reasoning. Prior research in other contexts has shown that such a technological disruption can result in professional identity threats and provoke negative attitudes and resistance to using technology. However, little is known about how AI systems evoke professional identity threats in medical professionals and under which conditions they actually provoke negative attitudes and resistance.

Objective

The aim of this study is to investigate how medical professionals' resistance to AI can be understood because of professional identity threats and tempor

SUBMITTER: Jussupow E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987955 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature