Artificial intelligence is already helping to improve medicine, and there is no doubt that it will find an indispensable place in the health sector. However, be careful not to rely too much on it, because this crutch paradoxically risks handicapping our doctors.
Indeed, a study recently published by The Lancet shows that doctors who had AI tools to help them detect cancers became less good at their screenings from the moment they no longer used AI.
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And we are not talking about beginners but about 19 experienced doctors in four endoscopy centers in Poland, who had already performed more than 2,000 colonoscopies before this experiment. Three months after AI tools were removed, their detection rate had dropped by 20% compared to the period before these tools were used.
In other words, no one—not even a doctor—is immune to losing their edge by relying on technological assistance, in the same way that automatic correctors can eventually demolish our spelling.