Researchers evaluate quality of online content about AI and cancer care
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed online content about AI in cancer care, finding that only a small fraction of available information is high quality and highlighting the need for better, more accurate resources to protect patients.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine have called for better information about the effect artificial intelligence (AI) has on cancer care. Highlights from their study are reported in a press release.
With the rise of AI use, the scientists sought to understand what searching for information about using AI for cancer information looked like. They analyzed 320 webpages and videos shown by Google and YouTube searches “using common cancer- and AI-related keywords.” Of those, only 81 pieces of content were relevant. After their analysis, only 24 pieces of content “were considered high quality.” Additionally, “only 15 percent of webpages mentioned the risk of AI hallucinations.” The authors call for higher-quality content to protect patients from misinformation.
