Sometimes the reporting on artificial intelligence makes it sound as though its chief threat is to the jobs of assembly line workers, law library clerks, and, someday, maybe truck drivers. Those certainly are trends. You could say that AI’s “entry level job” was to displace entry-level workers. That probably has some truth if we are dealing with sheer numbers, but it should not imply that AI is merely advancing up the workplace ladder from the bottom rung.
The New AI Job-Displacement Target: Surgeons?
Artificial intelligence is already guiding operations, controlling surgical cameras, and learning complex procedures as medicine moves closer to autonomous robotic surgery.
