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Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds


AI is not benign.

Making the results all the more troubling is the fact that the 19 doctors who participated in the study were all very experienced and had performed more than 2,000 colonoscopies each. There have been numerous studies that suggest that AI can facilitate everything from the detection of cancers to the diagnosis of illnesses based on a patient’s medical history. Researchers at MIT similarly found that relying on ChatGPT for essay writing resulted in less critical engagement with the material.

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