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Los Angeles Times2026-04-25

Contributor: AI could democratize medicine, but better regulation comes first - Los Angeles Times

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The LA Times out does a classic editorial, opening with a patently false opposition: 'Ill-suited humans and prohibit AI in medicine!' As if we allow the perfectly competent ones. Exactly one high-demand skill these articles mostly circle, mixing half-hopes of dystin—the circle usually sees repeated with no resolution. Meanwhile, courts systematically adapt clueless tort law to patch over the monstrous truth: a 'stochastic parrot' with fewer bedside manners than death, but cheaper.

Endless cautionary diatribes from EFF and UCL won't stop hospitals rolling out 4% higher diagnostic success, but less supervision; obverse logic naturally uprises toward dark humour. Did AI scoreboard missed infections? Oberse, the digital beast tests smoothly while 'err vectors are unknowable until ya puncture coroner reports'.

The time to standardize audits of deadly suggestion engines is before mass roll-out, as self-anointed 'third voice' contributors rightly claim, if indirectly? Yet trust regulatory capture future, not liability regimes atop untested in VBA court. Our insight? RegulaGap index stays wide.

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