Deaundreia Williams

Dr.Guenzel

ENC 1102

November 16, 2020

Draft

Evolution Splits in Two: Human Minds and AI Minds.

Researchers are leveraging artificial intelligence tools to develop more effective treatments and

testing for coronavirus. There are devices that are currently still in development and clinical

testing, but could provide COVID-19 vaccine results in approximately 20 minutes. Artificial

Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an important approach across biomedical discovery,

clinical research, medical diagnostics/devices, and precision medicine. Such tools can uncover

new possibilities for researchers, physicians, and patients, allowing them to make more informed

decisions and achieve better outcomes. In spite of the uproar between the accuracy of artificial

intelligence, the virtuous use of this technology could prevent Covid-19 from becoming

threatening to the next generations.

Based on data reported to CDC by public health laboratories and a subset of clinical and

commercial laboratories in the United States, 71,827,520 specimens were tested for SARS-CoV-

2 using a molecular assay since March 1, 2020. Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19

cases have died,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health

Organization, said at a press briefing in Geneva. That’s more than previous estimates of around
2% and the influenza fatality rate of less than 1%. The need of artificial intelligence is now we

have.

Stanford University speaks on AI success which has been driven by advances in machine

learning, in which computer algorithms learn from data without human direction. Most

sophisticated processes that involve some form of prediction generated from a large data set use

this type of AI, including image recognition, web-search, speech-to-text language processing,

and e-commerce product recommendations. The article states “it will quickly become clear that

AI can equal or outperform humans at simple, repetitive tasks. And the simpler or more helpful

the task.”( Stanford) For example an AI system that can largely automate electronic medical

record documentation the easier it will be to allow these technologies into the clinic. Times are

changing are the speed of technology will impact our lives in a positive way. The deployment of

a vaccine (or vaccines) to COVID-19 which, will be ground-breaking, given the immediacy of its

need in relation to the current development phase of the candidate vaccines. Some initial work on

coronavirus vaccines had been completed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and challenges to the

development of effective and safe vaccines against coronaviruses have been detailed in the

literature.

National AEFI surveillance AEFI surveillance (also known as vaccine safety surveillance).

A surveillance system designed to collect adverse events temporally associated with receipt of

vaccines. The imbalance between our knowledge of the safety of a vaccine candidate and the

extent of potential post-approval use of that vaccine at the time of licensure will be very large

indeed. With the growing evidence of adversities in vaccine responses based on differences in

innate immunity, microbiomes and immunogenetics, there is an emerging field within

vaccinology, known as adversomics, that acknowledges that AEFIs might be individually

determined. With this being stated even if there are rising brows toward artificial intelligence

within the use of creating a vaccine, AEFI surveillance is a safety net if AI makes a mistake

before it would be sent out to humans.

There shouldn’t be a questioning concerning the health of children, adults, and the elderly.

Advancements in AI application such as natural language processing, speech recognition, data

analytics, machine learning, deep learning, and others such as chatbots and facial recognition

have not only been utilized for diagnosis but also for contact tracing and vaccine development.

AI has no doubt aided the control of the COVID-19 pandemic and helped to curb its worst

effects. Cameras possessing AI-based multisensory technology have been deployed in airports,

hospitals, nursing homes, etc. “The technology automatically detects individuals with fever and

tracks their movements, recognize their faces, and detect whether the person is wearing a face

mask.”( Obeidat) Detecting if individuals have Covid-19 before walking into a facility with

crowds of people is genius and life-saving to critical individuals.

( COUNTERARGUMENT) inc. Eliminating the empathetic relationship is another potential

consequence of poorly designed and integrated AI. Health care is built on a human-human link.

So many people in the U.S. are mis diagnosed “medical error is the third leading cause of

death in the U.S., attesting to both the need for improving the system but also the fragility of the

system and consequences of poor design”( Enid). Humans desire and benefit from the problem-

solving that comes from conversations. In clinics with electronic health records, physicians

spend about 27 percent of their time on patient care and 52 percent time in the exam room

interacting with the patient. For instance, your data set might be drawing from a cancer screening

clinic that is only open for lung cancer tests on Fridays. As a result, an AI algorithm could decide
that scans taken on Fridays are more likely to be lung cancer. That trivial relationship would then

get baked into the formula for making further diagnoses.

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