Taking doctors out of the AI loop
Oncologist, bioethicist, and AI booster Zeke Emanuel has put out a JAMA paper, in collaboration with Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla and scion Neal Khosla, alleging that autonomous AI would be better than AI-assisted physicians at certain tasks.
The medical community is atwitter.
Could there be something to this idea? I dig in.
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The Study at a Glance
To start, the study is not a study as much as a perspective that highlights a few studies. But the basic premise is that AI can be a better doctor to patients on its own, rather than as an assistive tool for doctors.
Vinod and Neal Khosla, Zeke Emanuel, and his research fellow Abe Baker-Butler assert that AI outperforms doctors on five cognitive tasks:
- Pulling relevant medical information
- Creating a differential diagnosis
- Selecting diagnostic testing
- Prescribing a treatment per guidelines
- Managing chronic disease