A study conducted in Poland, today published, indicates that the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (IA) seems to be making doctors less efficient in the detection of colon cancers.
Regular AI use seems to have “harmful effects on expert skills,” according to the study published in Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, one of the first to suggest a loss of medical skills.
The purpose of the analysis is to realize what effects, the increasingly used AI -based tools in the world can have in medicine.
The authors studied data from various polake centers specializing in endoscopy and colonoscopy, tests that can detect digestive cancer signals, particularly the colon.
The data were collected in 2021 and 2022 and during this period, the centers expanded the use of AI software, designed to help doctors better detect this type of tumor.
Researchers did not examine the conclusions of AI tests, but analyzed the results of the exams done by the same experts without the help of AI.
Prior to the introduction of technology, 28.4% of these exams resulted in the detection of an adenoma, a benign tumor that could potentially become cancer and with the expansion of AI, the detection rate descended to 22.4%.
According to the authors, the use of AI has damaged experts’ ability to identify the tumors concerned.
The study is not definitive and it is possible that in the same period, other factors other than AI may have influenced the rate of tumors detected.
“Still, experts would be wrong to ignore the results of this study,” warned the expert in early detection and the treatment of pre -isonous conditions in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract, Omer Ahmad, who did not participate in work.
For the expert, the study is a first warning about the dangers of AI because of the slow wear “of fundamental competences” although it still “needs confirmation”.
“These results mitigate the current enthusiasm for the rapid adoption of AI -based technologies,” concluded the expert, noting that it is the first study under real conditions that points to a loss of medical skills.
