AI vs Poetry in Medicine

The poem “After the Diagnosis” envisions the massive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on medicine. Its title suggests when the greatest challenges posed by AI truly begin: after its vast “knowledge” and speedy data processing have already superseded clinicians’ diagnostic abilities, but human context is still needed. Subtle allusions to poems by John Donne and Algernon Charles Swinburne, perhaps warehoused somewhere in the AI’s training on texts it has digested but cannot read, preserve hu...