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With the advent of big data and the ever-increasing computing power, technologies that use artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming continuously widespread. In several applications, AI has already reached or surpassed human-like capabilities, paving its way in many fields, including medicine. However, when AI takes over tasks from medical professionals (MPs) in making high-stake health-determining decisions, skepticism seems to prevail on the one hand and overconfidence in AI on the other. This research-in-progress aims to investigate these mechanisms to contribute designing a successful human-AI collaboration. To do so, we will examine what MPs understand by the broad concept of AI, how opinions about AI arose, and what MPs’ emotions are. Therefore, we will analyze AI-related data of medical subreddits using natural language processing (NLP) techniques and qualitative analysis.

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Jan 17th, 12:00 AM

How Do Medical Professionals Perceive Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Reddit Data

With the advent of big data and the ever-increasing computing power, technologies that use artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming continuously widespread. In several applications, AI has already reached or surpassed human-like capabilities, paving its way in many fields, including medicine. However, when AI takes over tasks from medical professionals (MPs) in making high-stake health-determining decisions, skepticism seems to prevail on the one hand and overconfidence in AI on the other. This research-in-progress aims to investigate these mechanisms to contribute designing a successful human-AI collaboration. To do so, we will examine what MPs understand by the broad concept of AI, how opinions about AI arose, and what MPs’ emotions are. Therefore, we will analyze AI-related data of medical subreddits using natural language processing (NLP) techniques and qualitative analysis.