Doc, you got me?

Based on this article by Miranda Jeyaretnam at Time

Contrary to the promise of AI enhancing human expertise, a new study has delivered a startling warning: doctors who regularly used an AI assistant actually became less skilled within just a few months. The study found that after just six months, experienced endoscopists' unassisted ability to detect precancerous polyps plummeted, demonstrating a clear decline in a critical diagnostic skill.

Experts suggest this "de-skilling" occurs as dependence on the AI weakens the doctors' own visual search habits and diagnostic confidence, effectively dulling their hard-won human pattern recognition. The research provides the first real-world data for a long-feared consequence of automation, raising urgent questions about how to preserve essential human expertise in a world becoming increasingly reliant on AI.

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