Geoffrey Hinton recently posted this provocative question on twitter: "Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?"

We try to analyze the subtext to that question and provide our own personal answer.

Geoffrey Hinton recently posted this provocative question on twitter: "Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?" We try to analyze the subtext to that question and provide our own personal answer.

Special focus - AI black box vs physician

The intersection podcast is an outreach initiative to discuss recent research in artificial intelligence and healthcare. In a series of casual conversations, we dissect the essence of the methods used, their clinical applications and limits. Subscribe for new episodes!

Hosted by:
Jean-Emmanuel Bibault, MD, PhD
Maxime Bassenne, PhD

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The intersection podcast is an outreach initiative to discuss recent research in artificial intelligence and healthcare. In a series of casual conversations, we dissect the essence of the methods used, their clinical applications and limits. Subscribe for new episodes! Hosted by: Jean-Emmanuel Bibault, MD, PhD Maxime Bassenne, PhD

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