2024

Insights:
Clinician of the Future
attitudes toward AI
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are evolving
and being adopted at an unprecedented rate, offering
the potential to transform how we work, consume
information, innovate. In this rapidly changing landscape,it is important to understand the views of clinicians toensure AI technologies positively impact healthcare.

AI will transform the healthcare sector

The Insights: Clinician of the Future attitudes toward AI
report aims to understand their perspectives througha global study of over 1,000 people worldwide working
in healthcare.

71%
Believe AI (including GenAI) will havea transformative or significant impact
on their area of work.

Awareness of AI is high but the proportion
who have used it a lot is low
Familiarity with AI​*very familiar(used it a lot)

Usage of AI

Doctor (Peru)Now

not familiar

8%“AI is the future butit is also worrying.”

5%

26%
have used AI for work95%

aware of AI

50%
50%

87%
somewhat/a little familiar

have notused AI

35%

12%

24%

ChinaIndiaUSA

24%
have used AI for non-work

FutureHalf of those aware have used
AI, and this will likely increase
further, with two thirds ofthose who have not yet used AI
expecting to do so within thenext two to five years.

don’t expect to 34%
or not sure

All other charts/statistics exclude the (5%) not familiar and who have never heard of AI.

*

expect to use it within
two to five years

66%

93%

51%

China

USA

Insights: Clinician of the Future attitudes toward AI

AI is expected to bring many benefits

Multiple negative impacts are also expected

Clinicians recognise AI’s potential. Almost all respondents
expect AI to have to some positive impact in key areas.
They believe it will help...

While they identify numerous benefits, these arebalanced by concerns about potential drawbacks,
including misinformation, and causing errors.
They believe it has the potential to....

96%

93%

Accelerate knowledge discovery.

Be used for misinformation.

96%

85%

Rapidly increase the volume of scholarly and medical research.

92%

Cause critical errors or mishaps.

82%

Provide cost savings to institutions and businesses.

88%

Make physicians over reliant on AI to make clinical decisions.

79%

Increase work quality overall.

Cause disruption to society.

Likelihood to use a reliable
and secure AI assistant is high“Although there would be many
benefits, it would also wreak havoc
if false information is spread”

94% of clinicians who believe AI
can bring benefit when completingclinical activities are likely to use suchan assistant to assess symptoms andidentify possible conditions or diseases.

Nurse (Mexico)

Transparency and quality resources are key
Clinicians expect tools to be based on high quality,
trusted content and want transparency about theuse of generative AI.
81%
Clinicians expect to be told whether the tools they are using
depend on generative AI.

73%
Expect generative AI dependent tools’ results be based on highquality trusted sources only.

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