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Attitudes towards Trusting Artificial Intelligence Insights and Factors to Prevent the Passive Adherence of GPs: A Pilot Study

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 14, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10143101

Keywords

artificial intelligence; trust; passive adherence; human factors

Funding

  1. Biomedical Catalyst 2018 round 2: late stage [25763]

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This study shows that GPs' ability to diagnose skin lesions significantly improved when receiving correct AI information, but only a small percentage of them were able to correctly disagree with or disregard erroneous AI diagnostic indications. GPs with domain knowledge in dermatology were found to be better at rejecting incorrect insights from AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems could improve system efficiency by supporting clinicians in making appropriate referrals. However, they are imperfect by nature and misdiagnoses, if not correctly identified, can have consequences for patient care. In this paper, findings from an online survey are presented to understand the aptitude of GPs (n = 50) in appropriately trusting or not trusting the output of a fictitious AI-based decision support tool when assessing skin lesions, and to identify which individual characteristics could make GPs less prone to adhere to erroneous diagnostics results. The findings suggest that, when the AI was correct, the GPs' ability to correctly diagnose a skin lesion significantly improved after receiving correct AI information, from 73.6% to 86.8% (X-2 (1, N = 50) = 21.787, p < 0.001), with significant effects for both the benign (X-2 (1, N = 50) = 21, p < 0.001) and malignant cases (X-2 (1, N = 50) = 4.654, p = 0.031). However, when the AI provided erroneous information, only 10% of the GPs were able to correctly disagree with the indication of the AI in terms of diagnosis (d-AIW M: 0.12, SD: 0.37), and only 14% of participants were able to correctly decide the management plan despite the AI insights (d-AIW M:0.12, SD: 0.32). The analysis of the difference between groups in terms of individual characteristics suggested that GPs with domain knowledge in dermatology were better at rejecting the wrong insights from AI.

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