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Source Medpagetoday
How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?
It’s a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) programs that can hold conversations, write stories, and even generate songs and images within seconds.
For doctors who review scans to spot canceropens in a new tab or window and other diseases, however, AI has loomed for about a decadeopens in a new tab or window as more algorithms promise to improve accuracy, speed up work, and in some cases take over entire parts of the job. Predictions have ranged from doomsday scenarios in which AI fully replaces radiologistsopens in a new tab or window, to sunny futures in which it frees them to focus on the most rewarding aspects of their work.
That tension reflects how AI is rolling out across heathcare. Beyond the technology itself, much depends upon the willingness of doctors to put their trustopens in a new tab or window — and their patients’ health — in the hands of increasingly sophisticated algorithms that few understand.
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