Clinician in the loop: a flawed solution for AI oversight
David Toro-Tobon, Oscar Ponce Ponte, Victor M Montori, Juan P Brito · 2026
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Description
David Toro-Tobon and co-authors challenge a popular safeguard in a 2026 opinion piece on medical AI. Keeping a clinician in the loop is widely treated as the safety net for algorithms at the bedside. The authors argue the arrangement quietly shifts responsibility from developers onto doctors.
Their example is a thyroid scan where the clinician sees a harmless cyst and the AI cries cancer. Agreeing with the machine risks needless harm. Overriding it demands documentation and invites liability if the machine was right. Different AI kinds, they note, need different governance. The piece calls human oversight a flawed failsafe, not a solution.
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| CREATOR | David Toro-Tobon, Oscar Ponce Ponte, Victor M Montori, Juan P Brito |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |