Could Artificial Intelligence destroy radiology by litigation claims?

By, Hugh Harvey MBBS BSc (Hons) FRCR MD (res) We’ve all heard the big philosophical arguments and debate between rockstar entrepreneurs and genius academics – but have we stopped to think exactly how the AI revolution will play out on our own turf? At RSNA this year I posed the same question to everyone I spoke to: What if radiology AI gets into the wrong hands? Judging by the way the crowds voted with their feet by packing out every lecture on AI, radiologists would certainly seem to be very aware of the looming seismic shift in the profession – but I wanted to know if anyone was considering the potential side effects, the unintended consequences of unleashing such a disruptive technology into the clinical realm? While I’m very excited about the prospect and potential of algorithmic augmentation in radiological practice, I’m also a little nervous about more malevolent parties using it for predatory financial gains. This is what I call the ‘Nightmare on ML Street’ scenario…   Luckily this advertisement is a fake (I mocked it up), but I wanted to depict in absolute clarity the medico-legal nightmare that could potentially unfold. Let’s assume a couple of things first: AI/ML algorithms get to a point at which they are clinically validated to be super-human. I think this is almost a definite, given enough time. We aren’t quite there yet – after all, there hasn’t been a single randomised control trial or Phase III study demonstrating this –...
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