{"id":885234,"date":"2026-09-09T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885234\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:10:28","slug":"the-fundamental-question-is-whats-left-for-doctors-to-do-why-this-oncologist-insists-the-ai-threat-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885234\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The fundamental question is what&#8217;s left for doctors to do&#8217;: Why this oncologist insists the AI threat is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Countless studies on AI in medicine have appeared in recent years and, in the words of a recent\u00a0JAMA\u00a0perspective, a prevailing view has emerged: AI will play a supporting role for doctors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is meant to provide comfort that the profession\u2019s obsolescence is not imminent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Dr Ezekiel Emanuel says this is deluded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US oncologist and bioethicist believes that within a few years, the best care in several fundamental cognitive medical tasks will be delivered by the products of machine learning, not by doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Countless studies on AI in medicine have appeared in recent years and, in the words of a recent\u00a0JAMA\u00a0perspective,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-885234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}