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Your Cancer Scan Might Soon Have a New Second Opinion
AI medical diagnosis is already catching cancers that trained doctors miss, and within months of using it, those same doctors are getting worse at catching the ones the AI gets wrong. Researchers shadowed doctors relying on AI diagnostic tools and found their independent detection accuracy dropped in just a few months. The AI is not the problem. The assumption that it does not need watching is.
What does it feel like to know that aggressively treating a false positive, extra radiation, extra chemicals, can itself raise a patient's cancer risk down the line? That a machine cannot be held…
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