Opinion: Health care needs AI. It also needs the human touch

As friends who work as pediatricians, we’ve had several conversations recently about artificial intelligence and its growing role in medicine. Machine learning and computer algorithms, it seems, are on the cusp of changing the medical profession forever.

Prestigious medical journals publish a steady stream of studies demonstrating the potential of deep learning to replace tasks that are currently the bread and butter of highly trained physicians, like reading CT scans of the head.

We are attuned to artificial intelligence in part because our city, Montreal, has become . One of the city’s biggest teaching hospitals, the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, just launched an . And to the south of Canada, U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang has built a political campaign around