5 is also something that happens sometimes with physicians and healthcare generally anyway, and could be trained in LLMs is my guess. 1 is often (usually?) not

5 is also something that happens sometimes with physicians and healthcare generally anyway, and could be trained in LLMs is my guess. 1 is often (usually?) not done today by physicians per se anyway. 2 is kind of a strawman about LLMs. 6 is maybe the most challenging critique but is also kind of an empirical one, in the sense that if LLMs routinely outperform physicians in decision making (at least under certain circumstances) it will hard to make the case that it matters. I have my biases but in general I think at least in the US there needs to be a serious rethinking about how medical decisions can be made and how care can be provided. I'm skeptical about this paper — the real test will be something like widespread preregistered replication across a wide variety of care settings — but that would happen anyway before it would be adopted. If it works it works and if it doesn't it won't. My guess is under the best of circumstances it won't get rid of humans, it will just change what they're doing and maybe who is doing that.