Managing tail risk, not prompting, is the real job in AI medicine
jonc101x · x · 2026-07-27
- The author argues that managing tail risk and deciding how much error a patient can tolerate is a core part of medical practice.
- No clever prompt can solve that problem.
- The point is that AI in medicine can be powerful, but it does not remove the underlying clinical judgment required to avoid dangerous misses.
Related event: AI Health Advice Is Already Here; Safety Systems Are the Real Bottleneck(16 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Mathematician Elliot Glazer argues OpenAI should "slop drop" all its math results rather than hide them — burny_tech · 2026-09-23
- Grady Booch doubts AI's Navier-Stokes claim: insights may come from human experts — Grady_Booch · 2026-09-23
- Grady Booch: Contemporary AI Still Lacks Abductive Reasoning, Just 'Next-Token Prediction' — Grady_Booch · 2026-09-23
- AI solves Navier-Stokes-related problem as machines upend mathematics, New Scientist reports — burny_tech · 2026-09-23
- Mathematician says OpenAI likely proved a significant partial case of the Hodge conjecture — burny_tech · 2026-09-23
- An 11-minute billiards video hailed as the best intuitive explainer of LLM behavioral stability — ctjlewis · 2026-09-23