{"id":34814,"date":"2025-08-29T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:23:08","slug":"are-a-i-tools-making-doctors-worse-at-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=34814","title":{"rendered":"Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more \u2014 but may be losing skills in the process.<\/p>\n

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In the past few years, studies have described the many ways A.I. tools have made doctors better at their jobs: It\u2019s aided them in spotting cancer<\/a>, allowed them to make diagnoses<\/a> faster<\/a> and in some cases, helped them more accurately predict who\u2019s at risk of complications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But new research suggests that collaborating with A.I. may have a hidden cost.<\/p>\n

A study published<\/a> in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that after just three months of using an A.I. tool designed to help spot precancerous growths during colonoscopies, doctors were significantly worse at finding the growths on their own.<\/p>\n

This is the first evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor\u2019s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as \u201cdeskilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a two-way process,\u201d said Dr. Omer Ahmad, a gastroenterologist at University College Hospital London who published an editorial alongside the study. \u201cWe give A.I. inputs that affect its output, but it also seems to affect our behavior as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The study began like many A.I. trials in medicine. Doctors at four endoscopy centers in Poland were given access to an A.I. tool that flagged suspicious growths while they performed a colonoscopy, drawing a box around them in real time. Several other large clinical trials<\/a> have shown this technology significantly improves doctors\u2019 detection rate of precancerous growths, a widely accepted indicator of an endoscopist\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

Then, unlike in past studies, the researchers measured what happened when the tool was taken away.<\/p>\n

In the three months before the technology was introduced, the doctors spotted growths in about 28 percent of colonoscopies. Now, the detection rate had fallen to about 22 percent \u2014 well below their base line.<\/p>\n

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Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more \u2014 but may be losing skills in the process.In the past few years, studies have described the many ways A.I. tools have made doctors better at their jobs: It\u2019s aided them in spotting cancer, allowed them to make diagnoses faster and in some cases, helped them more accurately predict who\u2019s at risk of complications.But new research suggests that collaborating with A.I. may have a hidden cost.A study published in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that after just three months of using an A.I. tool designed to help spot precancerous growths during colonoscopies, doctors were significantly worse at finding the growths on their own.This is the first evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor\u2019s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as \u201cdeskilling.\u201d\u201cThis is a two-way process,\u201d said Dr. Omer Ahmad, a gastroenterologist at University College Hospital London who published an editorial alongside the study. \u201cWe give A.I. inputs that affect its output, but it also seems to affect our behavior as well.\u201dThe study began like many A.I. trials in medicine. Doctors at four endoscopy centers in Poland were given access to an A.I. tool that flagged suspicious growths while they performed a colonoscopy, drawing a box around them in real time. Several other large clinical trials have shown this technology significantly improves doctors\u2019 detection rate of precancerous growths, a widely accepted indicator of an endoscopist\u2019s performance.Then, unlike in past studies, the researchers measured what happened when the tool was taken away.In the three months before the technology was introduced, the doctors spotted growths in about 28 percent of colonoscopies. Now, the detection rate had fallen to about 22 percent \u2014 well below their base line.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34816,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34817,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions\/34817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}