Healthcare Is AI’s Hardest Test

If you want to understand how artificial intelligence will really impact the world, don’t look at coding, law, or finance. Look at healthcare. It is where AI faces its hardest test: layers of regulation, life-or-death stakes, complex biology, and a deeply human, compassionate core that most people would assume is the last thing a machine could replicate.

Nearly a decade ago, computer scientist and Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton (known as the “Godfather of AI”) said hospitals should stop training radiologists because...