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The Healthcare Jobs AI Will Eliminate First: When Pattern Recognition Becomes Software

December 16, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The Part of Medicine That Crumbles

This is one of the most compelling questions in healthcare right now: which medical jobs does AI eliminate first? The answer isn’t entire medical fields disappearing overnight, but specific tasks that define certain roles being automated and commoditized so completely that existing business models and workforce requirements collapse.

The area most vulnerable: routine diagnostic interpretation and administrative backend services. Let me show you exactly what crumbles and why.

AI, Alzheimer's Disease, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Science & Technology News

Deep learning algorithm detects Alzheimer’s up to six years before doctors

November 17, 2018

A new algorithm significantly outperformed human clinicians in predicting which patients would go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

A powerful new deep learning algorithm has been developed that can study PET scan images and effectively detect the onset of Alzheimer’s disease up to six years earlier than current diagnostic methods.

The research is part of a new wave of work using machine learning technology to identify subtle patterns in complex medical imaging data that human clinicians are unable to pick up. Continue reading… “Deep learning algorithm detects Alzheimer’s up to six years before doctors”

Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Medicine, Science & Technology News

Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk

September 24, 2017

These days, a radiologist at UCSF will go through anywhere from 20 to 100 scans a day, and each scan can have thousands of images to review.

Continue reading… “Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk”