John Burn-Murdoch

And certainly, you know, there are different parts of the NHS that function at different productivity levels and that kind of thing.

Would we not expect here, not so much a elimination of people, but just those same people doing far more?

So we get into a lot of this in the main episode and people can refer back to that.

But I guess what we're specifically talking about here or a good example is AI's impact on imaging.

So the ability to quickly spot concerning patterns and

what you're essentially saying is the capital that you already have to literally take those images acts as a constraint on how much AI can then benefit.

So if you've got loads of scanners and loads of scans, AI scales that up massively.

If you're a country like the UK that is quite scan and scanner and broader capital constrained, we will benefit less from what AI is doing.

And also, when we talked about eliminating people, I guess the key thing to note here is that we've not seen a collapse in the number of radiologists, the number of people who read these scans.

It's more that they are now able to do far more of the other valuable parts of their job.

They're processing more scans, as it were.

Well, look, Professor Sir John Bell, thank you so much for answering all of our questions.

And thank you to the listeners for sending those in.

There will be another episode of Radical coming your way very soon.

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