AI reshapes radiology jobs rather than eliminating them, FDA data shows

Nearly a decade after Geoffrey Hinton predicted AI would replace radiologists, the profession has instead grown, with practitioner numbers projected to rise more than 26% over three decades. About three-quarters of the 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices cleared by the FDA target radiology, ranging from tools that draft reports and flag urgent cases to systems that can spot abnormalities humans miss, such as AI-assisted colonoscopies detecting more polyps than standard procedures.