[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":316},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-human-intelligence-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":175,"relatedBooks":315},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":32,"project_category":44,"contact_email_category":45,"yst_prominent_words":46,"class_list":54,"better_featured_image":73,"acf":110,"yoast_meta":119,"_links":122},23951,"2019-05-18T16:20:49","2019-05-18T14:20:49",{"rendered":9},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=23951&_wpnonce=d0c5e3f265&status=auto-draft&type=post","2023-02-23T09:46:30","2023-02-23T08:46:30","human-intelligence-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fhuman-intelligence-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence",{"rendered":17},"Will Human Intelligence As We Know It Disappear In The Age Of AI?",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2019. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd> \u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Who is more intelligent: a caveman, a smartphone or your brother? What if we also put artificial intelligence in line? Humanity has come a long way from the African savannah to arrive at the urban skyscrapers, and not only physically, but also cognitively. Stone tools, speech, writing, pen, and paper all proved to be decisive tools in putting human intelligence on a path never seen before. What could happen with the emergence of AI, in which case it’s not about using an instrument anymore but collaborating with a created, but responsive source of intelligence? Is humanity ready for it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Human intelligence in perspective – Abstracting away\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Imagine that a Saturday morning you decide to make\npancakes. From the ability to make that simple decision to the capacity to\norganize shopping through language use until following up the baking procedure\nand eating the end product (not to speak about agreeing on who washes the\ndishes!), the process resorts to our intelligence more than we ever think\nabout. \u003Cstrong>“\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedaily.com\u002Fterms\u002Fhominid_intelligence.htm\">The ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think\nabstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>,”\ndoes not only make numerous people pancake kings, but also the life form on\nplanet Earth which is able to shape its environment to its needs. No other\nanimal has ever done anything similar, but we have to acknowledge that our\nancestors also had to come a long way.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The migration of people to all areas of the Earth along with the industrialization of modern society has abstracted the modern man away from the direct environment. Just think about how far humanity got from the African savannah: instead of chasing an antelope for hours and then striking it dead with a knob stick, you go into the store with a plastic card and ask for a pre-packaged slice of meat. No savannah, no knob stick, no hunting – and no idea how an antelope looks in real life. Without a lot more collective imagination, creativity and cognitive ability it’s hard to see the second as a viable way of gathering food. Over the centuries, greater importance has been placed on collective cognitive ability and intelligence to allow us to function in modern society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While most animals follow their instincts and genetic codes to survive and even prosper in their respective settings, you have zero chance of survival in an open office packed with computers, printers, and judgmental colleagues – only presenting human instincts. \u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.personalityresearch.org\u002Fpapers\u002Fskottke.html\">Changes have been made so rapidly in society that the natural selection mechanism of evolution has not had a chance to catch up to the progress\u003C\u002Fa> we have made technologically. Thus, the part of the brain that is able to process abstract thought is used to help us navigate and cope with our “foreign” environments. That’s why intelligence and especially collective intelligence has become increasingly important over the past millennia.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FBow-And-Arrow-Hunting-512x335.jpg\" alt=\"human intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-23952\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FBow-And-Arrow-Hunting-512x335.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FBow-And-Arrow-Hunting-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FBow-And-Arrow-Hunting-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FBow-And-Arrow-Hunting-2048x1341.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.thoughtco.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>From reciting the Odyssey to forgetting birthdays\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Researchers argue that the invention of tools completely\nrewired the brains of Homo Sapiens, but the appearance of writing, later on,\nprinting and finally computers have no less impact on cognition, memory, and\nintelligence in general. The brain of the hunter-gatherer, who was scrapping\nmeat from the bones of huge mammals with stone tools, that of the agricultural\nhuman, starting to grow wild rye 12,000 years ago, that of the codex printing priest\nor the homo technologicus might be different on many levels. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Let’s take, for example, the appearance of writing dated back to the Sumerians, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ancient.eu\u002Fwriting\u002F\">who invented it as a means of long-distance communication necessitated by trade in around 3,500-3,000 B.C.\u003C\u002Fa> Writing enabled a fraction of the population to pin down details related to business transactions, but oral storytelling prevailed for centuries to come. Historians say that Homer was not one person but \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnews.nationalgeographic.com\u002Fnews\u002F2015\u002F01\u002F150104-homer-iliad-odyssey-greece-book-talk-travel-world\u002F\">generations of storytellers who recited the book-long ballad of Odysseus and the Iliad over and over again\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the spread of writing, the need for remembering long passages declined, so the individual capacity for recalling facts, numbers or stories also diminished. \u003Cstrong>The individual human brain rather settled for making sense of texts and writing, whereas the collective mind became richer and less forgetful through rolls and books. The appearance of printing, and later on, computers further accelerated this diverging procedure – until humanity has found itself in the situation that the collective human intelligence has reached the level that it could discover gravitational waves and black holes, while individuals don’t even remember the birthdays of their friends anymore – since they have Facebook and their smartphones to remind them\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FHistory-Of-Printing-512x415.jpg\" alt=\"human intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-23953\"\u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.netdirectdistribution.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Are\nwashing machines smarter than us?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Alongside our capacities to process and remember\ninformation, researchers debate a lot about how human intelligence changed in\ngeneral, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.livescience.com\u002F37095-humans-smarter-or-dumber.html\">some arguing that it increased (see the Flynn effect)\nand others maintain that it declined due to genetic changes\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003Cstrong>However,\nwhat’s beyond doubt, and also visible from the above examples, is that the\nreliance of humans on ever more complex technologies increased so much that it has\nimpacted human cognition, memory-making, and intelligence in general.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2016\u002F10\u002F12\u002Fthe-combination-of-human-and-artificial-intelligence-will-define-humanitys-future\u002F?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=FFLoUJJTP13NkjTWRC17TQ\">We’ve eagerly traded our agency in ever-increasing ratios for anticipated gains, even when we’re unfamiliar with the choices and assumptions built into a particular instance of that trade-off\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fstrong>For example, we accepted the washing machine doing the laundry for us while we can watch TV – although we have no idea how it works and the majority of people would be in huge trouble if they had to wash their clothes with their bare hands. In general, our risk-taking has paid off, and the resulting real gains have generally far outstripped losses. Thus, humanity seems to be content with shrugging off responsibilities to technology in return for more comfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FWashing-machines-512x341.jpg\" alt=\"human intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-23954\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FWashing-machines-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FWashing-machines-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FWashing-machines.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">www.kiswash.co.uk\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Is\nyour laptop or your smartphone the extension of your mind?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>With\nthe appearance of personal computers and smartphones, that phenomenon is\npresent to such extent that some philosophers argue that they should be treated\nas extensions of our personality and mind. In ‘\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fconsc.net\u002Fpapers\u002Fextended.html\">The Extended Mind’\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>, Andy Clark and David Chalmers argue that technology\nis actually part of us. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vice.com\u002Fen_us\u002Farticle\u002Fqvemgb\u002Fis-your-smartphone-an-extension-of-your-mind\">According to traditional cognitive science, ‘thinking’\nis a process of symbol\nmanipulation\u003C\u002Fa> or neural\ncomputation, which gets carried out by the brain. Clark and Chalmers broadly\naccept this computational theory of mind but claim that tools can become\nseamlessly integrated into how we think. \u003Cstrong>Objects\nsuch as smartphones or notepads are often just as functionally essential to our\ncognition as the thoughts wandering around in our heads. They augment and\nextend our minds by increasing our\ncognitive power and freeing up internal resources. Just think about it for a\nmoment how powerless you would feel without your smartphone for a day\u003C\u002Fstrong> – no\ncommunication, no calendar, no transport information, no Google, no Wikipedia,\nno news, no weather forecast, no photos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The theory of extensive intelligence says that we should incorporate technologies into our concept about human intelligence, which might eventually result in treating these objects as external dimensions of ourselves. With the appearance of ever more sophisticated technologies to which we delegate the most intimate data about our lives, such as health data, it makes more and more sense not to make a clear distinction where the technology ends and the human starts. Especially, if you look at cases when \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vice.com\u002Fen_us\u002Farticle\u002Fqvemgb\u002Fis-your-smartphone-an-extension-of-your-mind\">the FBI reportedly pressed a dead gunman’s finger to the fingerprint-recognition feature on his iPhone in an attempt to unlock it\u003C\u002Fa>. Regardless of who’s affected, it’s disquieting to think about the police using a corpse to break into someone’s digital afterlife. With the extended mind theory, such intrusions are considered unethical and if incorporated into our laws, also illegal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FLaptop-Extension-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"human intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-23955\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FLaptop-Extension-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FLaptop-Extension-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FLaptop-Extension-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002FLaptop-Extension.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.youtube.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>How\nwould A.I. change the course of events?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We’re at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2016\u002F10\u002F12\u002Fthe-combination-of-human-and-artificial-intelligence-will-define-humanitys-future\u002F?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=FFLoUJJTP13NkjTWRC17TQ\">an interesting transition point where we are moving\nfrom using our tools as passive extensions of ourselves, to working with them\nas active partners\u003C\u002Fa>.\nAn ax or a hammer is a passive extension of a hand, but a drone forms a\ndistributed intelligence along with its operator and is closer to a dog or\nhorse than a device. And although \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002F@davidolarinoye\u002Fwill-ai-ever-be-able-to-make-a-joke-808a656b53a6\">artificial intelligence is the worst joke teller yet\u003C\u002Fa>, such tools can interact with us in ways never before\npossible, from scripting interviews based on voice recordings until producing\ncat videos for YouTube.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Getting into an active partnership with ever-learning tools means a significant leveling up from previous time periods – for the machines. They are not only taking over manual, but also cognitive tasks. The area of humanity where it can feel superior in comparison to technology is shrinking, and we arrived at yet another crossroad of redefining what it means to be human. Is there the possibility that we delegate so many tasks to technologies that we practically find ourselves empty-handed and redundant?\u003C\u002Fstrong> \u003Cstrong>When deep learning algorithms teach other algorithms on how to play chess, where does the ‘human touch’ make any difference? \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theatlantic.com\u002Fmagazine\u002Farchive\u002F2018\u002F10\u002Fyuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny\u002F568330\u002F\">Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari, warned several times that one of the biggest challenges of the 21\u003Csup>st\u003C\u002Fsup> century\u003C\u002Fa> will be the danger of humans becoming insignificant – compared to technology, first of all, A.I. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although this rather dark vision would definitely be further down the road, with the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) in sight, the fastest growing field of A.I., artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) with computer vision and natural language processing, is already fit for completing various, highly predetermined task-sets. However, that doesn’t mean that artificial intelligence could mimic human intelligence, cognition, and consciousness in any way. We are decades, maybe centuries away from AGI and any kind of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ffuturism.com\u002Fkurzweil-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2045\">singularity\u003C\u002Fa>. Moreover, without humans, not even ANI algorithms perform well. Numerous research, also in medicine, proves that the best scenario is even the collaboration of A.I. and humans. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002Fartificial-intelligence.jpg\" alt=\"human intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-23956\"\u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">www.theceomagazine.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Perhaps\nwe all should familiarize with the thought that independent, cognitive human\nintelligence will come to an end with the emergence of A.I.; and the future\nrather leads to the combination of the two. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. 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Humanity has come a long way from the African savannah to arrive at the urban skyscrapers, and not only physically, but also cognitively. Stone tools, speech, writing, pen, and paper all proved to be decisive tools in putting human intelligence on a path never seen before. What could happen with the emergence of A.I., in which case it’s not about using an instrument anymore but to collaborate with a created, but responsive source of intelligence? 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Is humanity ready for it?",{"self":123,"collection":129,"about":132,"author":135,"replies":138,"version-history":141,"predecessor-version":145,"wp:featuredmedia":149,"wp:attachment":152,"wp:term":155,"curies":171},[124],{"href":125,"targetHints":126},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F23951",{"allow":127},[128],"GET",[130],{"href":131},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts",[133],{"href":134},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftypes\u002Fpost",[136],{"embeddable":26,"href":137},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fusers\u002F6",[139],{"embeddable":26,"href":140},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=23951",[142],{"count":143,"href":144},9,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F23951\u002Frevisions",[146],{"id":147,"href":148},49563,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F23951\u002Frevisions\u002F49563",[150],{"embeddable":26,"href":151},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia\u002F23957",[153],{"href":154},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=23951",[156,159,162,165,168],{"taxonomy":157,"embeddable":26,"href":158},"category","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcategories?post=23951",{"taxonomy":160,"embeddable":26,"href":161},"post_tag","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftags?post=23951",{"taxonomy":163,"embeddable":26,"href":164},"project_category","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fproject_category?post=23951",{"taxonomy":166,"embeddable":26,"href":167},"contact_email_category","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcontact_email_category?post=23951",{"taxonomy":169,"embeddable":26,"href":170},"yst_prominent_words","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=23951",[172],{"name":173,"href":174,"templated":26},"wp","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.w.org\u002F{rel}",[176],{"id":118,"date":177,"date_gmt":178,"guid":179,"modified":181,"modified_gmt":182,"slug":183,"status":13,"type":14,"link":184,"title":185,"content":187,"excerpt":189,"author":23,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":192,"categories":193,"tags":195,"project_category":205,"contact_email_category":206,"yst_prominent_words":207,"class_list":213,"better_featured_image":225,"acf":262,"yoast_meta":270,"_links":273},"2017-09-12T15:17:24","2017-09-12T13:17:24",{"rendered":180},"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?p=16292","2022-05-12T12:02:02","2022-05-12T10:02:02","future-empathy-not-coding","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ffuture-empathy-not-coding",{"rendered":186},"The Future Is About Empathy, Not Coding",{"rendered":188,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2017. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the fast advancement of digital technologies and the allure of entrepreneurial lifestyle, plenty of people in different professions turn to coding thinking that the future will require even more IT skills than today. Although I do not question the importance of digital literacy in general, I believe medical professionals should rather master soft skills and acquire a futurist mindset than go for coding if they truly want to prepare for the coming decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Automation, A.I., and robotics turn the job market upside down\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>At the dawn of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.weforum.org\u002Fpages\u002Fthe-fourth-industrial-revolution-by-klaus-schwab\u002F\">Fourth Industrial Revolution\u003C\u002Fa>, automation and digitization of our worlds and workplace are continuing, changing the job market, the nature of many jobs and even the concept of what it means to be working. Many fear that robots and automation will take their jobs without alternatives. The phenomenon is not new: in the 19\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> century, members of the Luddite movement – textile workers and weavers – destroyed weaving machinery in protest and fear that machines would take their place in their industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Lately, the same fears emerge in healthcare about \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-future-of-radiology-and-ai\u002F\">artificial intelligence taking the jobs of radiologists\u003C\u002Fa>, robots surpassing the skills of surgeons, or \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.forbes.com\u002Fsites\u002Fbernardmarr\u002F2016\u002F04\u002F25\u002Fsurprisingly-these-10-professional-jobs-are-under-threat-from-big-data\u002F#322bade7426b\">taking jobs in pharma\u003C\u002Fa>. A renowned voice in tech, Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cnbc.com\u002F2017\u002F04\u002F27\u002Fkai-fu-lee-robots-will-replace-half-of-all-jobs.html\">told CNBC that\u003C\u002Fa> A.I. will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade. \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Ftechnology-30290540\">Stephen Hawking even said that\u003C\u002Fa> the development of full A.I. could spell the end of the human race. Elon Musk agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing.png\" alt=\"empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16293\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing.png 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-512x288.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-444x250.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Is basic income tax the solution? Or turning to coding?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As the fears of losing the battle against new technologies grow exponentially, alternatives on the individual and social level already surfaced. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fpolicy-responses-to-automation-and-robots-taking-jobs-2017-4\">most popular policy-level concept\u003C\u002Fa> is the introduction of the universal basic income, in which case the government would give everyone just enough money to live on while creating incentives for individuals to take risks, start businesses, change jobs, return to school or try a new career. Another idea is the negative income tax, where the state would give the poor money the same way as in the case of taxing rich people; but \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=nccryZOcrUg\">Bill Gates would tax robots\u003C\u002Fa> and some \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fpolicy-responses-to-automation-and-robots-taking-jobs-2017-4\">economists think the solution lies at the heart of governments creating more jobs\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While these responses for the challenges of automation and digital technologies are only ideas at the moment – except for the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fsociety\u002F2017\u002Ffeb\u002F19\u002Fbasic-income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs\">national-scale experiment of Finland with universal basic income\u003C\u002Fa> -, it is natural that people are making steps to secure their own futures. No wonder that so many are considering to give up their current profession and try their luck in programming, coding, and entrepreneurship in general. As it seems that the hottest professions of the day are those dealing with \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fskills-that-can-get-you-hired-2016-10\">data science, coding and computing\u003C\u002Fa>. While many think that it might even be the case in healthcare, I believe that if someone truly pictures himself or herself among medical professionals in the future, other skills, such as the futurist mindset and social skills coupled with sound digital literacy might be more important than coding or entrepreneurial spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16296\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-444x250.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The importance of the futurist mindset\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I’m not saying that everyone should get a crystal ball and concentrate strongly on what it is trying to say. Yet, it is important to look ahead and continuously monitor the current trends with a notion of how it might affect one’s job, family or environment in general. Personal computers, laptops are only around for a couple of decades, not to speak about the wonder called world wide web! In the 1950s, no one would have thought that a little bit more than 60 years later, the most pursued jobs and skills will be those of the data scientists and coders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Many jobs that might be around in healthcare in a couple of years, do not exist yet. What if we will have robot companion technicians soon? What about \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fnew-jobs-future-healthcare-medicine-part-ii\u002F\">gamification specialists or AR\u002FVR operation planners\u003C\u002Fa>? While they all might be possible, you cannot really prepare for them only by studying more coding or data science. What everyone needs to understand is that the most important is to familiarize with the latest technologies and prepare for the changes in time. We have to have meaningful conversations about how such changes affect people and the future generations. For example, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fkid-will-play-friends-learn-vr-teachers\u002F\">the generation born today will play with AI friends and have VR teachers\u003C\u002Fa>. That might come with a completely different view on the worlds as ours today, so we need to be open, mindful and curious. Just as a futurist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16297\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-512x286.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-447x250.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Social skills and empathy\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In healthcare, soft skills such as empathy – and the jobs connected with it will be valued more and more in the future. It makes complete sense. Automation, robots and artificial intelligence will perform certain cognitive tasks brilliantly to the extent that humans will not be able to compete. Where could humans have a chance? At the so-called soft skills: creativity, empathy, compassion and paying attention to each other. Although artificial intelligence will perform diagnostic tasks or robots might be able to do surgeries, but could they talk to a patient with empathy about the risks and consequences of an operation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, as digital health simplifies administration and cuts down on monotonous tasks, the workload of doctors and nurses will be reduced, so they will be able to concentrate on what really matters – healing the patient and guiding him through the entire process with care. I think, eventually, AI would be able to mimic even such soft skills but as we are social beings, we will always need the human touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The shift towards jobs requiring soft skills already shows in the numbers. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that while jobs for doctors and surgeons will \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bls.gov\u002Fooh\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fphysicians-and-surgeons.htm\">rise\u003C\u002Fa> by 14 per cent between 2014 and 2024, the top three direct-care jobs – personal-care aide, home-health aide, and nursing assistant – are expected to grow by 26 per cent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, as Livia Gershon writes \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fthe-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-college-but-compassion\">here\u003C\u002Fa>, we seriously need to rethink our perspective towards jobs requiring social skills; as they are usually underpaid and undervalued. As care work and other types of labor containing mainly soft skills cannot contribute to the GDP growth as effectively as other types, the global economic system cannot value it appropriately. However, as the age of artificial intelligence and robots is coming, soft skills become much more valued and those who plan to enter the social care sector now will reap the benefit of it – not to speak about patients and society in general!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16299\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Digital literacy\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although I argue against medical professionals massively going into coding and programming in general, I am certainly not against digital technology and digital literacy. On the contrary! I believe that it is way more important than many other skills in today’s digital world. I only think that it is more relevant to interact and use technology than to understand it down to the tiniest detail. Especially for medical professionals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although in the future, it also might change what digital literacy means. Plenty of schools started to incorporate the basics of computer science, coding and programming into their courses. For example, former US President Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ program for elementary and high schools in the United States. And while I’m all for STEM education, I would be happy to see schools focusing more on voluntary work in helping the elderly or other groups of people in need, as what kids learn there might be more valuable than Python in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16300\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While acquiring new skills related to digital technologies, of course, makes sense, in healthcare, it might make even more sense to focus on skills we should have been good at but the nature of our profession didn’t allow it. With disruptive technologies, physicians would finally have time to focus on the patient, deal with challenging decisions and enjoy their profession again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":190,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>With the fast advancement of digital technologies and the allure of entrepreneurial lifestyle, plenty of people in different professions turn to coding thinking that the future will require even more IT skills than today. 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