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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

Medicine and the Machine

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Breast Cancer

I think that in getting excited about the technology, we lose sight of what the actual question that we're trying to answer is. The really hard question that you want to actually answer when it comes to breast cancer care is whose life can be saved with treatment right? That's who should we give treatment to just save their lives. And I think that that really is where the reach of AI goes too far. When we fail to realize that actually these things have to be about a partnership between human and machine, rather than human versus machine.

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