By JAMA. Published online on January 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0018

AI has entered the medical field so rapidly and unobtrusively that it seems as if its interactions with the profession have been accepted without due diligence or in-depth consideration. It is clear that AI applications are being developed with the speed of lightning, and from recent publications it becomes frightfully apparent what we are heading for and not all of this is good. AI may be capable of amazing performance in terms of speed, consistency, and accuracy, but all of its operations are built on knowledge derived from experts in the field. We here follow the example of the kidney pathology field to illustrate the developments, emphasizing that this field is only exemplary of other fields in medicine.

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Citation

Fogo AB, Kronbichler A, Bajema IM. AI’s Threat to the Medical Profession. JAMA. Published online January 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0018

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