Douglas Flora, President – Elect Association of Cancer Care Centers at Association of Cancer Care Centers, shared TensorBlack’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“Will AI replace doctors?
Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Emanuel, thinks autonomous AI will soon manage a lot of what physicians do today, starting with chronic disease and the side effects of chemotherapy, and that the better it gets, the more likely a human override is to add errors rather than catch them. His recent JAMA papers made the argument in print.
In our next episode of our podcast, AI and Healthcare, Sanjay Juneja, sits down with Emanuel, an oncologist, bioethicist and Penns Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, to talk through where autonomous AI in healthcare arrives first, where it will fail, and what is left for physicians when it does.
In this week’s episode:
- Why managing hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol, and in oncology, chemotherapy side effects, are likely the first places autonomous AI works at scale, with an AI agent handling as many as 90% of cases at home
- Humans arent perfect either: Waymo, diagnostic error, and why human intervention can make a very good AI worse
- Where AI is most likely to fail: rare cancers with no clear guideline, and value judgments only a patient can make
- AI as decision support vs. autonomous AI: Thats what autonomous means
- The four barriers to deployment: licensure, liability, reimbursement and workflow, and a licensure framework for autonomous clinical
- AI Deskilling: if AI takes the easy cases, where does the next expert come from?
- The prediction Emanuel once called nonsense, and why he now says, He was right. I was wrong.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and co – director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute. An oncologist and bioethicist, he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to 2011.
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Quoting Tensor Black’s post:
“In August, Zeke Emanuel, argued in JAMA that by 2030, autonomous AI will outperform AI – assisted physicians on cognitive medical tasks.
John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, took the other side. Medicine is not a set of tasks, he argued. It’s judgment, context, and knowing the patient in front of you.
But what if that debate misses the bigger picture? What if the harder question is whether medicine is truly ready either way?
On the latest episode of AI and Healthcare, we asked Zeke about that future: where autonomous AI arrives first, where it fails, what stands in the way, and who trains the next expert. With Sanjay Juneja.
Swipe through. The JAMA paper and the full episode are in the comments.”
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