Hacker News Reader

And if anything goes wrong, we just assume it was unavoidable and not, say, a bug. So bugs don't get found and people die and nobody cares. Just spinning another possible scenario.

It could still be a net gain since vastly more people get the care they need.

View on HN

There are plenty of bugs in normal, human-delivered medicine. Medical errors are a massive source of death and disability in modern medicine.

But are they systematic and across potentially thousands of identically-programmed bots, all updated at the same time? The potential for widespread simultaneous errors is colossal.

As is the potential for instantaneous updating of optimised procedures, which would take years to decades with humans. In the end I'm certain they won't be infallible, but just as with autonomous vehicles they're likely to be many orders of magnitude more reliable than humans.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com