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adi_kuriantoday at 6:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Colonoscopy detection has gotten modestly better with AI assistance.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39216648/

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2023...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1309086

https://info.asge.org/083024-colon-asge/acg-quality-task-for...

New tool that does task better than worker leads to workers being less good at task. Net outcome for patient is positive. Next?

Programming: "for a given task, if you take a shortcut then you will not have the familiarity and expertise that someone who took the veritable and righteous path would have".

The question is then, what did you do with the extra time. If it's fuck all, then yes, that's a liability.

Like any technology, it comes down to the disposition of any given person in how they plan on applying it.

Not trying to say it's all going to be awesome. Definitely maybe the opposite. These arguments are weak tho.


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jplusequalttoday at 9:17 PM

If your argument boils down to "individuals just need to use it the right way" then I ask you to kindly use that same framing for driving cars, owning guns, etc. and then rethink your position.

It turns out that when the use of a tool has external consequences for misusing it, it's important that there are structures in place for penalizing the misuse of that tool.