Would you trust a computer to decide when to do a caesarean section?
What is epistemic trust? Imagine for a moment that computer interpretation of the CTG has become so good that it now significantly outperforms skilled maternity professionals ability to detect impending fetal hypoxia. As a maternity professional, you can’t see what the computer is seeing, because your brain simply lacks the capacity to interpret the trace the same way the computer does. What criteria would need to be met for you […]
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