Medicine: the most obvious use case for life-saving AI, and the most resistant to it
birchlse · x · 2026-10-18
birchlse argues medicine is both the easiest context to imagine many life-saving uses of AI and the one where all such uses are guaranteed to face resolute opposition for decades—"the NHS still uses pagers."
The post highlights the gap between AI's medical potential and institutional inertia: regulation, liability and legacy infrastructure keep deployment slow.
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