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I agree that in actual use, medicine needs to verifiably work. I believe "AI", if you wanna call it that, probably has its place in effectively speedrunning theoretical testing and bruteforcing of results that would take humans much longer to even think of.
The problem arises when people trust whatever the machine spits out. But thats not a new problem with AI its a general problem that any form of media has.
AI is a tool. Just like all tools, it's only as good as the tool that's using it.
And, the material it has to work with, which for AI, is gathered information