Would you trust a diagnosis from an AI doctor?

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I'm Lily Dromale. As consumers we've all been subjected to the upsell, to pay a little more for a product that's slightly better,

were promised. It's one thing if you're buying, say, a car or a piece of clothing, but the ethical

questions get a lot more complicated in health care.

Some providers have started integrating AI in diagnoses, including screenings for breast cancer

for a cost, and despite questions about their accuracy. We asked NYU journalism

professor Meredith Broussard about this given her personal experience grappling

with these questions.

A couple of years ago, I started looking into AI

mammography for a project I was doing for my last book,

more than a glitch confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech.

And what I discovered was that even though we're excited about new kinds of AI and mammograms, actually people have been trying to

detect cancer using AI and computer-assisted techniques since the 1990s, and it hasn't been

hasn't been successful in all of that time.

And in your book in describing the experience that you had,

you seemed, for lack of a better term or phrase, weirded out by having there

be a role for an AI in the diagnosis that you got. What was the experience like for you? Well I think that

weirded out is a good description of how I felt. I should start by saying that I had breast cancer and I was treated for it and I am so

grateful to the doctors and the medical professionals who took care of me.

And then after my recovery I started looking into the state of the art in AI-based

cancer detection because I had noticed something in my chart that said, these films were read by an AI.

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