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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So… Judging by recent trends in AI, this will be used to devalue the labor of surgeons and be provided as the only option available to people who are not rich. People will die from what would get a human charged with neglegent homicide but, it will be covered up and, when it comes to light just how dangerous it is, nothing will happen because all of the regulatory agencies have been dismantled.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Outside of the US there are pretty stringent rules about what can and cannot be used in the medical profession. Typically it will take at least a decade for a drug to be approved, which is actually a problem in and of itself, but you’re not concerned about that, you’re concerned about technology being used before it’s ready.

As for “devaluing the work of surgeons”, surgeons are overworked as it is, there is nowhere near enough of them. If they don’t have to do simple procedures then they are available to do the more complex surgeries that actually require skill. They’ll be fine. Wealth isn’t really a factor in countries where healthcare isn’t profit motivated.

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percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
OR maybe everyone — including the poor — will eventually have access to robotic surgeons with the equivalent of like 500 human years of experience, but with the latest surgical best practices that have only existed in recent years. The experience gained by a single surgery could be shared across all of them.

We’re talking about surgery. If some technology can provide significantly more valuable labor than its human counterpart (which, in this case, could mean more lives saved), then it might actually be worth exploring.

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- nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That would be wonderful. The current way that the world has been “working” for a good while now makes me think it unlikely, unfortunately. The vast majority of technological innovation in the last half-century has been used to extract wealth and replace options available to the non-ultra-wealthy with inferior substitutes that are cheaper to make, often for the same effective cost.
  
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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I would rather get surgery done by a robot than not get it done at all. I’m not gonna be picky about “devaluing surgeons” if my life is on the line, but if that’s the hill you wanna die on then good on ya, mate.

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- nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Who’s dying on what hill now?
  
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