What I would worry about are endless number of doctors and surgeons that spent a life time mastering a skill and will just as easily be rendered obsolete by the same technology.
Lawyers too.
What I would worry about are endless number of doctors and surgeons that spent a life time mastering a skill and will just as easily be rendered obsolete by the same technology.
Lawyers too.
For example: for decades they've managed to resist entry of decision-support systems(which were not perfect, but still, an improvement), even though their own error rate is ~1/8.
Health care industry is a cartel that optimizes for profit.
Well actually its economic power. These people just have to pray technology doesn't get cheaper with time.
I remember in the 90s an entire generation of Indian workforce lost jobs overnight, for decades they fought computers and software. They bought in regulations, laws and what not. Unions fought 'computers' tooth and nail. Yes, you read it right- they were against the very use of computers.
When the prime minister called for use of computers in India in the 1980s there was a national strike.
Eventually it became impossible to not use computers without slipping into an economic stone age. People had to give way.
You mean, because they operate on car crash victims?
The Jevons Paradox implications of reducing the costs of litigation by one or more orders of magnitude ... terrify me. The more so as reducing costs tends to increase the level of concentration of power.