Radiologists strike again: Hinton's 2016 automation prediction becomes an AI-circle joke
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-09-14
AI safety researcher Quintin Pope jokes about job displacement: back in 2016, Geoffrey Hinton predicted AI would soon replace radiologists entirely. It never happened, and the failed prediction is now a running joke — with Pope quipping that radiologists are the one profession impossible to automate "by divine fiat."
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