Ezekiel Emanuel: doctor sign-off may add more errors than it catches as AI improves
mattlungrenMD · x · 2026-10-20
On the AI and Healthcare podcast (at 7:51), Ezekiel Emanuel argues: "That autonomous A.I. is going to be better consistently than humans." His case: as AI improves, human intervention in medical decisions could introduce more errors than it catches — making the doctor sign-off step itself the problem. A heavyweight take on where human-in-the-loop stops making sense in medicine.
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