Use AI with Caution: Is the Future at Risk? — Dr. Vinod Gore

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere today. It makes tasks easier, boosts creativity, and is becoming a powerful tool for humans. However, with great benefits also come great risks. Dr. Vinod Gore, a leading robotic surgeon in Pune, explains how AI can help — but also how it can silently cause harm.

How AI Helps — But Also Harms

• AI is widely used and makes many tasks easier and faster.
• It increases efficiency and creativity in multiple fields.
• AI is now being integrated into medical systems like sonography.
• With AI-powered sonography, abnormalities are detected more accurately.
• In thyroid screening, AI + sonography detect more cancers than before.
• Because of AI detection, thyroid cancer incidence has increased 3 times in the last five years.
• However, the death rate remains the same — which means additional detection has not improved survival.
• Many people naturally have small, dormant cancers (thyroid, prostate, breast) that never grow or harm them.
• AI may detect these harmless cancers unnecessarily, causing stress, overtreatment, and financial burden.
• Thus, the over-diagnosis problem is a serious concern with AI-powered medical imaging.

Why Over-Diagnosis Is Dangerous

• Unnecessary cancer diagnosis increases patient fear and emotional stress.
• Many of these cancers would never cause symptoms or harm throughout life.
• AI detects cancers that were previously dormant and harmless.
• This leads to unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, treatments, and expenses.

Conclusion: AI is powerful — but must be used wisely. Overuse in healthcare can cause more harm than benefit.