Author warns radiology ‘can be automated quite easily’
According to author Martin Ford, the increased use of robots to carry out professional jobs could someday put radiologists out of a job.
Ford recently discussed his book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, on the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s satellite radio channel, and an edited transcript of that conversation is now available on the school’s website.
“In general, if a college student says to me, ‘What should I study so that it can be safe?’ I think health care is a good bet, if you are doing something that is interacting directly with patients and requires lots of mobility and dexterity … as opposed to, for example, being a radiologist where you’re looking at images and interpreting,” Ford said. “That kind of thing can be automated quite easily.”
Click below for the full text of Ford’s conversation with the Wharton radio host.
Michael has more than 18 years of experience as a professional writer and editor. He has written at length about cardiology, radiology, artificial intelligence and other key healthcare topics.