AI could dull your doctor's detection skills, study finds

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Endoscopists who use AI may see their cancer-detection skill degrade.
• Prolonged exposure to AI is diminishing doctors' focus and motivation.
• Favorable studies of AI in medicine may be corrupted by the study design.

It's important to get a colonoscopy, especially past a certain age, as colorectal cancer is the second-most common cancer in the world after breast cancer. It's also the most common in people over age 55, according to the World Health Organization. 

Most patients probably don't ask their endoscopist how good their adenoma detection rate (ADR), the typical measure of the doctor's skill in detecting potential cancers.

It might be worth asking in the future, however, because artificial intelligence could decrease your endoscopist's skill level, according to a new study in the scholarly journal ...