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AI could dull your doctor's detection skills, study finds
AI software appears to produce an over-reliance on the machine, sapping doctors' focus and responsibility.
Lead author Krzysztof Budzyń and collaborators at Poland's Academy of Silesia's Department of Gastroenterology and multiple partner institutions describe a phenomenon called "deskilling." Budzyń and team started from a simple premise: studies where endoscopists use AI resulted in improvements in ADR level, which means more cancers detected. "[…] Ongoing exposure to AI might change behaviour in different ways," wrote Budzyń and team, "positively, by training clinicians, or negatively, through a deskilling effect, whereby automation use leads to a decay in cognitive skills."
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