A new study warned that using artificial intelligence to detect cancer actually made doctors worse at their jobs. Researchers wrote in a paper published in the Lancet journal Wednesday that doctors’ ability to detect cancer dropped by 20 percent after implementing an AI tool to help them with diagnostics for three months. Four endoscopy centers in Poland were surveyed to compare detection success rates before and after AI usage. The study looked at 19 highly-skilled doctors in a randomized trial involving over 2,000 colonoscopies. After three months, the doctors’ ability to detect cancer on their own dropped significantly, which researchers speculated was due to overreliance on the tool. The study explained that doctors’ dependence on it was “leading to clinicians becoming less motivated,

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