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A study published this week in The Lancet examined the impact of an AI tool for colonoscopies on the skills of doctors. The researchers tested doctors' abilities to find certain abnormalities in patients for three months before using AI, then tested them again after they’d used the tool for three months.

They found that doctors’ ability to spot those abnormalities on their own degraded after using AI. And while that might not be a big deal a few decades down the road when AI-assisted detections are the norm, it does pose a probl

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