Tim DaviesCEO Projekt Rising - The expert AI partner for SMEs

The Ethics of Robot Surgery: Trusting Machines with Our Lives

9 Apr 2025

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This content was created by Tim Davies. This content was uploaded by Tim Davies. This is a YouTube video titled "The Ethics of Robot Surgery: Trusting Machines with Our Lives" containing a conversation between two speakers discussing their perspectives on the trustworthiness and risks of robot-performed surgery, including success rates and potential malfunctions. The discussion explores ethical and safety concerns related to medical robotics.

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My husband and I were talking one day and we're like, would you allow a robot perform your surgery if he was going to have a 99% success rate? And I said to him, no.
Really?
And he said, why? Like, you were one person I thought would be the first to say, I don't know whether I'm there yet on medicals. He was like, no, I will definitely take a robot rather than a human. That is at 75%. And then I'm like, okay, imagine this. You're going for the surgery, you've done the surgery, it's successful, and then it's about to close you up and it reboots. And he says, start by cutting this and it cuts you off.
I think. I think when you're thinking through the safeguards that you'd put in through for model protection, that those sort of safeguards and protection.
It doesn't reboot. Okay, but.
I think I would take robot surgery over human surgery all day.
Long, I guess so.