"The value of human cognitive labor will probably turn negative." - Emad Mostaque of Stability AI.
He's reiterating exactly what myself and others have said repeatedly this year, and it especially applies to doctors.
Doctors right now contribute NEGATIVE IQ to most medical diagnoses and problem solving situations. They produce worse outcomes than AI alone, as repeatedly proven through multiple published studies, including the now-famous Harvard-MIT study on radiologists.
Doctors make so many mistakes that according to published studies (for example: PubMed, "Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors" by James G Anderson and Kathleen), doctors right now kill up to 250,000 Americans each year. Globally, according to the WHO, that number is 3 million people each year. That's equivalent to a "Medical Holocaust" every 2 years.
By replacing human doctors, AI will save lives and dramatically improve patient outcomes. That's because in any hospital room, the most dangerous person in the room is the doctor himself (or herself). By removing human doctors and replacing them with AI, not only will health care costs dramatically fall, but patient outcomes and survival rates will dramatically improve.
My own AI engine at BrightU.ai already knows more about health, nutrition, medicine and physiology than any human doctor living today (or who EVER lived). Soon, I'll be releasing a new feature that offers diagnostic research based on a person's symptoms or bloodwork, and there's no question this free AI engine will be far superior to human doctors and will be used by millions of people around the world to get BETTER conclusion than what their human doctor could produce. (I'm calling the feature "Better Than A Doctor.")
Even better, AI engines aren't arrogant pricks who berate you for doing your own research, unlike human doctors who are self-righteous authoritarians who despise knowledge and freedom of speech. Doctors hate knowledge and demand ignorance of their patients, as they are threatened by people who conduct their own research and who take control over their own health outcomes, cutting doctors out of the loop and reducing their repeat business profits.
The sooner we fire the human doctors and replace them with AI, the better off we'll be. And you're going to start seeing this accelerating throughout 2026.