Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in the medical field. It provides predictive behaviors that can accurately analyze complex medical data. With AI integration into many fields of medicine, it is important for healthcare providers to understand its capabilities and limitations. Its growing popularity and presence in healthcare has caused widespread media coverage, allowing a wider percentage of our population to become aware of its great potential to help. However, these news stories are often hyperbolic and overestimate the power of AI in healthcare and ignore its potential limitations.

Affecting roughly one percent of the population worldwide, schizophrenia first manifests in the mid-teens to late 30s, and distorts an individual’s interpretation of reality. Schizophrenia is diagnosed through the presence of “positive symptoms” which are feelings or behaviors that are usually not present such as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.