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> ML is far too unreliable and doctors too illiterate for medical imagery diagnostics to be safe without an extremely careful approach.

"Safe" isn't always the only objective. In some cases access to "unsafe" medical AI is better than nothing.

Your mindset is shaped by living in a wealthy country. Do you know much about the medical systems of countries with $1000 GDP per capita? Most poor people in these countries don't have access to a doctor. The wait times in public are so long and cumbersome (and still cost an arm and a leg) that they don't even bother going. Then they die. It's not the country's fault, that's just the reality of poverty, there aren't enough trained doctors.

The only honest comparison therefore is not always "doctor vs AI" it's "nothing vs AI".