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by kkielhofner 659 days ago
Human medical errors have been one of the leading causes of death[0] since we started tracking it (at least decades).

The healthcare system has always killed plenty of people because humans are notoriously unreliable, fallible, etc.

It is such a stubborn, critical, and well-known issue in healthcare I welcome AI to be deployed slowly and responsibly to see what happens because the situation hasn’t been significantly improved with everything else we’ve thrown at it.

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225187/