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KMID : 1025620170200040386
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2017 Volume.20 No. 4 p.386 ~ p.405
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Artificial Intelligence and Medical Resource Allocation
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Jang Un-Hyuk
Jeong Chang-Rok
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Abstract
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While artificial intelligence (AI) offers the promise of liberating humans from mundane labor, it also has the potential to create an unemployment problem in various economic sectors, including the healthcare industry. Exactly how AI will or should be used within the context of healthcare has emerged as an impor-tant ethical question. This article shows how a surplus of human resources will arise from the introduction of AI in the healthcare system and explains how medical resource should be allocated. It is argued that the surplus of human resources caused by the introduction of AI in healthcare should be used for those pa-tients that receive the fewest benefits from the healthcare system.
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KEYWORD
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medical ethics, artificial intelligence, surplus resources, medical resource distribution, distribution priority, definition
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