Why algorithmic speed can be more important than algorithmic accuracy

Clinical Ethics 18 (2):161-164 (2023)
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Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) often outperforms human doctors in terms of decisional speed. For some diseases, the expected benefit of a fast but less accurate decision exceeds the benefit of a slow but more accurate one. In such cases, we argue, it is often justified to rely on a medical AI to maximise decision speed – even if the AI is less accurate than human doctors.

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