Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them
What's happening
Researchers and commentators are flagging new risks from medical AI beyond accuracy: medical diagnosis models can be probed to reveal whose data they were trained on. The conversation spans technical work on human-AI collaboration for tasks like pulmonary nodule segmentation using models such as Segment Anything Model, concern that reliance on AI degrades clinicians' skills (example: physicians with 2,000+ colonoscopies given a real-time adenoma-flagging tool), and reports that diagnosis AIs can be tricked into exposing training-patient membership. Together these items highlight both practical deployment use cases and privacy/expertise hazards tied to medical AI tools.
Why it's trending
Because deployed diagnostic tools and segmentation models are being used in real clinical workflows now, researchers and commentators are exposing concrete privacy and skill-degradation risks at the same time.
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- Studies suggest that reliance on AI tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers
The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the sp
r/artificialJun 24 - Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained themHackerNewsJun 24
- Human and AI collaboration for pulmonary nodule segmentation
Medical expert annotators are scarce, and blind reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) can be misleading, motivating approaches in which humans, particularly junior medical trainees or even non-medical personnel, collaborate with AI to achieve robust medical segmentation. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) shows promise for general-purpose image segmentation, its performance in human-AI c
arXivJun 21
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