Skill Decay in the Age of AI: When Help Hurts!
Artificial intelligence (AI) now assists clinicians in ways once unthinkable—flagging abnormalities, scoring cytology images, even suggesting treatment plans. Yet a recent Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology study revealed a paradox: when doctors who had relied on AI returned to unaided colonoscopy, their adenoma detection rate fell by six percentage points. It was the first quantifiable evidence …
