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Here is the pre-print: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5070304

This part is interesting to me:

"We believe that continuous exposure to decision support systems like AI may lead to the natural human tendency to over-rely on their recommendations, leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance."

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Which makes sense. If you're making the call alone, it's on you if you get it wrong and somebody dies. But with AI recommendations, nobody will blame you, it's the AI's fault if it gets it wrong.

Better outcomes for the people that matter most.

Are the outcomes better?

Yes, what the GP was implying is that the important people don't get convicted in court when a patient dies due to a wrong diagnosis if the AI is responsible.

I was trying to be sarcastic sorry

Sounds similar to the effect of relying on AutoPilot™

this is what is happening to me in coding

"We believe that continuous exposure to transportation support systems like cars may lead to the natural human tendency to over-rely on their engines, leading to travelers becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when riding horses."

The closer analogy is modern turn-by-turn directions and the number of people that will blithely follow them even when something is clearly amiss.

Great argument, yes let's by all means march towards a future of as much dependence on AI as we have on cars, while general thinking and creativity decline as did horsemanship. A+ analogy.

to be fair people do move their bodies a lot less if they can just sit in a car and get there for a lot less effort. most of the Western world is struggling with obesity to an extent.

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