Neither excessively alarmist, nor blindly enthusiastic, David Gruson attempts to do away with the hackneyed binaries all too common to the AI debate, providing instead a realistic portrait of a healthcare system in which the humans, doctors, and machines are all essential elements.

Artificial intelligence is transforming medical and social fields, upending healthcare practices. The pace of these changes continues to accelerate. However, new techniques resulting from the advent of digital technology raise ethical issues that appear to be just as dizzying as the technological and therapeutic advances obtained. "Big data" enables the accumulation of data on our health, including complete knowledge of our genomes. AI will thus be able to solve medical problems... and even predict them!