AI is definitely harmful in healthcare. Recently a major hospital chain in New York is proposing replacing radiologists with AI (https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/radiology/nyc-health-hospitals-ceo-ai-could-replace-many-radiologists/). Turns out, AI is not adept at recognizing even simple visual patterns and shapes, but through a phenomenom called “mirage”, it pretends it is, even guessing correctly at xray intepretations on par with human radiologist even when presented with NO FILM. See here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21687. From that study, the most extreme "…example, a text-only model trained without the X-ray images achieved the top score on a chest X-ray question-answering benchmark. Fortunately, some doctors are resisting the switch on the grounds of patient safety (https://www.doctorscouncil.org/news/doctors-council-response-to-comments-made-by-mitch-katz-on-ai-replacing-radiologists).

What is also interesting is Dr. Katz decribes his hospital system-ie, NYC public health) as being especially suitable for the replacement. Katz’s proposal isn’t simply “AI is better than radiologists, therefore replace them.” There is also an economic and access argument underneath it: if AI can perform some radiology work at much lower cost, a safety-net system may see it as a way to stretch scarce medical resources. But that also creates an interesting question: is it appropriate to use a population that already has fewer healthcare resources as the place where a highly consequential AI substitution is implemented?

Already, populations such as the incarcerated are seeing their therapists replaced with chatbots. Though some may not mind or even see it as preverable to dealing with a human, I see, once again, the destitute and disadvantaged being cheated with inferior and shoddy goods.

Personally, i jettisoned the healthcare complex years ago.

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I used to love the Pink Panther cartoon because, if I remember correcrly, it had no speaking. Plus, it was calm. I do not remember loud sounds in it. I chafe at those horrible loud cartoon sounds, also the casino machine sounds and most videogame sounds. I keep videos on mute a lot and use subtitles.

Thank you for this post! I came from Reddit just today and in those forums they forbade every comment I made which resembled yours. I wholheartedly agree with you, especially your last sentence. I think there is a wisdom in recognizing when to stop wasting time amd energy with BS. I like myself too and now that I am older, I find myself defiantly and strongly being myself. I socialize very little, engage in the activities which I enjoy by myself quite contentedly. I think, if being honest, most folks are even a bit envious and resentful that I have the courage and ability to do this. BTW, I was diagnosed as a child but my parents wisely chose to send me through gifted classes and not focus on the autism. Only when I got worse in my teens did that label play any role, mostly negative. I acquired learned helplessness and began to doubt my abilities. I got extremely anxious and depressed. I was on various pharmaceuticals for many years which thankfully seem to not have cause irreversible harm. It has taken many years to pull out of that and now I take no pharmaceuticals and have completely rejected Western medicine and their labelling and drugs. I am the most free and happy I have ever been. The key was getting out of the medicalization apparatus altogether. I do not play in their field, I do not acknowledge their system at all. I act autonomously outside of it. Now I am a successful artist, fulltime student living alone in a nice place with a few quality friends and my Buddhist sangha and groups like this are my support network. I do not lead with or even mention the autism unless I have known the person for awhile and even then I am trying to not have it be definitive of me at all. I do this partly because I found I was using the autism as a kind of crutch and excuse to not live to my potential. This is the most difficult thing for me at this point-seeing if I will be accepted or rejected as just me without the autism label. Like I just entered an art call for people with disabilities that also accepts people without. I entered as without by not mentioning the autism. That means they will judge the artwork more stringently than if they knew about the autism. But it is tricky because if I mention it I could be an advocate for others with that issue. Still, I no longer want to believe in the labels, period so I am taking more chances now just being me, no definition. Works for me.