Comment by siliconc0w
13 hours ago
The problem is that false positives can be incredibly expensive in money, time, pain, and anxiety. Most people cannot afford (and healthcare system cannot handle) thousands of dollars in tests to disprove every AI hunch. And tests are rarely consequence free. This is effectively a negative externality of these AI health products and society is picking up the tab.
This is why certain types of cancer tests are usually only performed on people over a certain age. If you test young people the false positives outnumber the true positives.