Do doctors think AI will take their jobs?
Among 669 Korean physicians/students, AI familiarity was low (5.9%) but 83.4% saw medical usefulness—especially for diagnosis—while only 35.4% thought AI could replace them.
Source
Physician Confidence in Artificial Intelligence: An Online Mobile Survey
Study at a glance
- Design
- Cross-sectional — Online mobile survey of Korean physicians/medical students (11 items)
- N
- N=669 · 669 completed responses
- Population
- Korean doctors and medical students surveyed online
- Outcome
- Awareness of and attitudes toward medical AI usefulness, risks, and replacement
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What they did
They fielded an 11-item Google Forms survey on AI recognition, attitudes, likely medical uses, and perceived risks.
What they found
High perceived usefulness (83.4%) and diagnosis as top use case; concerns about unexpected situations (29.3%); minority endorsed diagnostic superiority (43.9%) or job replacement (35.4%).
The limits
What it doesn't show
Attitudes are not performance benchmarks; a convenience online sample may not represent all clinicians.
Key terms
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Computer systems performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
- Familiarity
- Self-reported good understanding of AI (only 5.9% here).
- Diagnostic superiority
- Belief AI diagnoses better than human doctors.
- Job replacement
- Belief AI could replace the respondent’s clinical role.
- Unexpected situations
- Edge cases where AI may lack adequate information.
- Online survey
- Web/mobile questionnaire used for rapid attitude sampling.
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Sample size?
669 completers.
Good AI familiarity?
5.9% (40 people).
Useful in medicine?
83.4% agreed.
Replace physicians?
Only 35.4% agreed; majority disagreed.
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