{
  "abstract": "Background The prospect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health care offers new opportunities, and new perils, to patients and caregivers. One aspect of AI that is not mentioned in the dialogue between AI proponents and adversaries is the impact of AI use on human experience.Objectives We postulate the opportunities and effects of AI as a mediator of experience, defined as humans’ direct interactions with the world.Methods By considering the ways in which AI changes the interaction of caregivers and patients with environments built to provide care, we assess novel opportunities where AI can mediate exposure to situations that sap development of human faculties. We also identify situations where AI has potential to rob humans of valuable development.Results Current AI systems can potentially correct the toxic experience of route, meaningless data entry that is prevalent throughout healthcare. The downside, habituated use of AI to replace healthy struggle – in cases such as writing – can stunt the development of human skill and replace excellence with mediocrity.Conclusions As a mediator of human interactions with the world, AI has the potential to help, or harm, our development as individuals and the insights we gain.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Intermountain Health"
      ],
      "name": "Russell Leslie"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Intermountain Health"
      ],
      "name": "Daniel Nystrom"
    }
  ],
  "title": "8 Artificial intelligence as a mediator of experience",
  "uid": "7a21dadd-a8bf-52fd-a665-afdead5d311a"
}