What would happen if artificial intelligence (AI) could not improve everything? This is in any case what a new study revealed on Wednesday, August 13 suggests in the Medicine field. Made in Poland and published in Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, she argues that with the introduction of AI, doctors seem to be less efficient to detect tumors in the colonist.
This is one of the first studies to mention the risk that this technology affects specialists’ skills. The regular practice of AI seems to have “harmful effects on the skills of endoscopy specialists,” summarizes the authors.
In more general terms, this is one of the first studies that seeks to answer a crucial question: what effect can have tools based on AI, increasingly used in the world of health, in medical practice? To respond, the authors studied data from several Poles Centers specialized in endoscopies and colonoscopies, exams that make possible in particular detect signs of digestive cancer, particularly the colonist.
The data were collected in 2021 and 2022. During this period, these centers generalized the use of AI software that aims to help specialists better detect this type of tumors. The researchers did not examine the results of the exams carried out using AI. Rather, they analyzed what they continued carried out by the specialists themselves, but without help.
The detection of tumors would be degraded with ia
Before the introduction of AI, 28.4% of these exams led to the detection of an adenoma, a benign tumor but can degenerate in cancer. Once the AI is generalized, this rate decreased to 22.4%. Therefore, this suggests, according to the authors, that the use of AI has degraded the capacities of specialists to identify the tumors in question.
However, the study does not allow it to be safe: it is possible that, during the same period, other factors that the AI played on the tumor rate detected.
For him, this study is a first alert, which certainly requires confirmation, about the dangers of AI in matters of “slow erosion of fundamental skills.”
“These results kill current fashion to quickly adopt AI -based technologies,” he concluded, emphasizing that this is the first real -life study that goes in the direction of a loss of medical skills.
Source: BFM TV
