[leesec]

> All these diagnostic AIs won't significantly reduce the cost of healthcare nor improve quality.

Thanks but this sounds ridiculous to me. Doctors are people too who really do get paid and really do make mistakes.

Using AI to learn from the best of the best will improve results overall, and automating tasks that expensive doctors did will reduce cost.

Yes we need to handle the exploding and ridiculous administrative costs, but clearly there can be gains on both fronts of this battle.

[evrydayhustling]

Agree that it's silly to write off potential gains, but it's also important to recognize that consumer costs of healthcare aren't driven by supply costs. It may be easy for administrative and insurance layers to claim the surplus created by AI.

This is an important factor in how we choose to build products out of AI advances. If your product replaces a part of a service chain that is not either right next to the transaction or in a competitive part of the supply chain, it might only help incumbents aggregate more power and charge more rent. If you can deploy in a way that improves the competitive landscape, you not only distribute gains more but probably keep more leverage as a solution.

This is harder for AI than many technology areas because incumbents tend to have more data and regulatory protection on that data. Health care might be the boss level for that problem.