Cory Doctorow

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On the Media · F@#$ the AI Overlords · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

I have a very treatable form of cancer, and a month ago, a radiologist told me I'm now cancer-free after a variety of therapeutic interventions.

Me too.

It was a very stressful time.

Yeah.

Well, thank you.

So I've been paying a lot of attention to the research about radiology and AI, and it seems like there's probably some of these algorithms that can spot some tumors that sometimes radiologists miss.

if it was as good as a radiologist, right?

If it could just do the radiologist job and it would make the radiologists go broke, but it would mean that like interpreting x-rays would become too cheap to meter.

I think there's a lot of cancer patients who would say, hey, you know, the reason radiology exists is to fight cancer, not to pay the mortgage of radiologists.

I'm sorry about this.

And we need an equitable transition for you guys.

But

look, I just want the robot radiologist.

If we lead with the idea that this can do the radiologist's job, which I don't think it can, then people who don't want to die of cancer or don't want their loved ones to die of cancer, those people end up on the side of the boss and not on the side of the worker.

But there's two different ways the radiology story can go with AI.

And so if today there was like an AI salesman going up to the CEO's office and going, here's the deal.

You've got 10 radiologists on the strength that cost you $300,000 each.

That's a $3 million annual wage bill.

Each of them does 100 x-rays every day.

And I want you to spend an extra million dollars.

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