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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

the one time my doctor used it and i didn’t get mad at them (they did the google and said “the ai says” and I started making angry Nottingham noises even though all the ai did was tell us exactly what we had just been discussing was correct) uh, well that’s pretty much it I’m not sure where my parens are supposed to open and close on that story.

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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Be glad it was merely that and not something like this reuters.com/…/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-ar…

In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses…

At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.

FDA device reports may be incomplete and aren’t intended to determine causes of medical mishaps, so it’s not clear what role AI may have played in these events. The two stroke victims each filed a lawsuit in Texas alleging that the TruDi system’s AI contributed to their injuries. “The product was arguably safer before integrating changes in the software to incorporate artificial intelligence than after the software modifications were implemented,” one of the suits alleges.

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