Ciao Daniela, ho molto apprezzato il fatto che sposti il problema su un piano epistemologico e condivido che per la clinica il paradigma indiziario sia più indicato dei big data. Sono entrambe scelte rare e preziose. (Junio • Pisa)
> Il giorno 10 feb 2026, alle ore 12:00, [email protected] ha > scritto: > > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Nuovo articolo, The imaginary patient. Fantastic health data > and where to find them (Daniela Tafani) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:01:41 +0000 > From: Daniela Tafani <[email protected]> > To: nexa <[email protected]> > Subject: [nexa] Nuovo articolo, The imaginary patient. Fantastic > health data and where to find them > Message-ID: > <pawpr07mb955898e81e7f5a2b86bfad35f3...@pawpr07mb9558.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Buongiorno, > > ho appena pubblicato un articolo sui chatbot e la medicina > e vi sarei molto grata di qualsiasi osservazione. > > The imaginary patient. Fantastic health data and where to find them > <https://btfp.sp.unipi.it/en/2026/01/the-imaginary-patient/> > > Abstract > In the name of an upcoming AI revolution in healthcare and of chatbots and > ‘agentic AI’ allegedly capable of providing health advice, the US, > international institutions, and the European Commission are pushing for the > digitisation of clinical and health data. > Unfortunately, ‘digitisation’ is just a new name for mass surveillance, there > is no such a thing as ‘agentic AI’ and those surveilling us are not > interested in making healthcare more accessible or personalised, which would > simply require hiring more healthcare personnel. > At best, a machine learning system capable of tracking correlations can be an > auxiliary tool in medicine. An extruder of probable text strings can only > make us imagine that we are in a doctor–patient relationship, but what a > doctor does is certainly not autocomplete. A chatbot is therefore both > useless and dangerous, if the objective is healthcare. However, a private > healthcare company whose goal is to increase quarterly dividends may consider > a chatbot to be a useful cost-reduction tool. Within an instrumental > rationality, a healthcare company may find it rational to replace doctors > with chatbots, just as it would find it rational to feed prisoners dog food > if it ran a prison. After all, financial analysts who think in terms of > business logic are seriously asking themselves whether treating patients is a > sustainable business model. > Announcements of an AI-based healthcare revolution have no scientific basis. > However, they are deeply rooted in sectors that are heavily funded by the > pharmaceutical industry and technology companies. Here, the interest in > promises of automation, in dehumanising patients, in commodifying health and > in destroying public healthcare systems converge with the surveillance, > control, manipulation and domination goals of the US military–industrial > complex. > Even if it cannot cure us, generative AI is perfect for all these purposes. > > Un saluto, > Daniela > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > [email protected] > https://server-nexa.polito.it/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > ------------------------------ > > End of nexa Digest, Vol 202, Issue 9 > ************************************
