AI Might Worsen Diagnostics for Physicians
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Are we seeing the same effect in doctors as in programmers? Where over-trust or confidence in the tools makes us make more mistakes.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals /langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5 /abstract
AI may worsen diagnostics for physicians due to over-trust in AI tools, leading to mixed results in medical diagnosis.
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I understand that AI companies want to embed AI in everything and make society dependent on it. Like cigarette brands AI companies want a world addicted to their technology.
But as a society we should be more careful before throwing well known methods for fancy new tech. Even more important is to take a step back and think when AI companies are pushing for "not lose the AI race", "speed up adoption", and the rest of FOMO scaremongering.
Stop and think is what I expect from professionals even when CEOs push for AI as fast as possible.
Everywhere I look there is someone preserving 16th century cave painting techniques or hand tanning beavers and then writing guides that surpass whatever knowledge there was centuries ago.
You don't know what you don't know. Just because you know of some things being preserved doesn't mean all knowledge is being preserved.
For example, the US has lost its ability to do all sorts of manufacturing.
Businesses don't tend to document internal processes publicly. As those businesses die out and the people who worked for them retire, there is no one left to pass the skills along.
That's why the Army always keeps one tank factory open. So the knowledge and skills are not lost.
The knowledge isn't in practice but not lost. We still know how to weld steel and built turrets. I mean the full schematics of tanks are available online.
I'm not as worried about "business processes" dying. Who cares how Freddy does submits his TPS report.
Saying we know how to weld so we can build a tank is like saying we know C++ so we can build a new unreal engine.
If epic games went out of business, and no one worked on game engines for 30+ years, the knowledge would be lost. Even if the source code or “schematics” are available.
You need to know why things are the way they are, why decisions were made, what the limitations are, etc.
If nobody built a game engine in 30 years we could still build another game engine. Knowledge will be "lost" but the capability is still here.
Half the polulation of the world getting their Gallbladders removed because AI said so.
Gallbladder polyps are abnormal growths in the lining of the gallbladder wall. Some are tumors, some are scar tissue, and most are cholesterol deposits.
screening costs money, it does not save lives.
Same with Colon cancer and Prostate cancer screening.
£ $ Millions spent, hardly anyone saved.
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