Medical Xpress October 28, 2024
A new study has found that cancer diagnosis can be less accurate when AI is used to help, with people over relying on AI rather than their own opinion.
The study by University of Warwick psychologists, published in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, asked trained people to diagnose cancer from signs of it in mammograms (breast X-rays).
It found that when people were told the accuracy of the AI, they were worse at correctly identifying cancer compared to when they were not told the accuracy.
Participants showed worse performance with increased false alarms, decreased sensitivity to symptoms of cancer, an increase in women being unnecessarily recalled in a clinical setting and a decrease in women being recalled who actually had...
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