Health practitioners, companies, and others have for years hailed the potential benefits of AI in medicine, from improving medical imaging to outperforming doctors at diagnostic assessments . The transformative technology has even been predicted by AI enthusiasts to one day help find a “cure to cancer.”

But a new study has found that doctors who regularly used AI actually became less skilled within months.

The study, which was published on Wednesday in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal , found that over the course of six months, clinicians became over-reliant on AI recommendations and became themselves “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance.”

It’s the latest study to demonstrate potential adver

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