There's a right way to use AI and then there's the corporate way.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Also, if you corner the market for long enough. The job of radiologist becomes obsolete, and then you can turn around to the people that are paying you the $10m per year and say, "Oh look, you've got nowhere else to turn. We want $18m or we stop providing support."
Their end goal isn't Star Trek, with money obsolete, their end goal is all the money.
I don't mind if their goal is all the money. All the money is still obsolete money.
"All the money" I guess was a bit of an absolutist term, but their end goal is to break the link between the working class and the means of production, which is where the power of that class lies. If that were to be removed, piece by piece, creeping as it appears to do without any real pushback from governments, then either we would be subject to the whims of people that have proven themselves to be untrustworthy and uncaring, or it would have to be snatched back by way of revolting luddites.
By the way, we have scientific evidence on how AI and radiology relate in real-world applications: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/does-ai-help-or-hurt-human-radiologists-performance-depends-doctor
Nice find. Yes, it's notoriously difficult to avoid that with machine learning in the first place. It's designed to reproduce bias and stereotypes from the training data. It will find patterns, no matter whether they contribute towards the goal of the application. And I heard extrapolating beyond what's in the training data doesn't really work that well. I mean a doctor has context, can use their reasoning skills to come up with conclusions. And some medical imaging software will more or less leave the boundaries of what it can comfortably find predictions for, so it might do unpredictable things.
As a an actual radiologist this is pretty accurate. Also the AI in radiology has been a slight time saving tool and a large cost and that is about it. It has been mostly a dud. Maybe it will improve, but if I had imaging done and the hospital said AI read it, I would get a second opinion from a human immediately as is. We've spent billions of not trillions on AI and it has had a minimal impact on my daily life in the hospital. We could have health care for everyone with the cost spent.