Well, hindsight is 20⁄20. I’m not that confident that I’d be able to suggest “obvious” association if I were given a few clinical case without the answer attached (this seems like a lost opportunity here OP).
To be clear, the doctors in OP’s anecdote do seem somewhat subpar, (and revoking a doctor’s license if they regularly override an AIs recommendation without new evidence or some good justification sounds like a pretty good idea provided AI gets reliably better results than humans, but you’d have to find a way to make the doctors want to stick their neck out in the few case where the AI is wrong) but we should refrain from piling on based on one second hand anecdote and some personnal frustration.
I could very easely write up a true story about ANY profession depicting how incompetent some of them are. So either everyone is incompetent, or I just don’t know enough about what they do to trully evaluate their work… I would rather err on the side of humility (I’ll agree that ideally we shouldn’t err at all) and charity.
Don’t know if off topic here:
I’m not sure the position “probes competing for resources cann’t afford to uphold any values that could interfere with replication and survival” is as obviously true as many seem to suggest.
It sure does seem sort of intuitive, but then we notice that organismes have been competing for resources and reproducing for billions of years, and yet plenty of animals evolved behavior which looks like a complete counter example to the “efficiency uber alles” ethos ( human , lions (which rest 80% of the time), complexe birds mating rituals ) .
If it worked this way for self replicating biological nano machines, why would it work differently for von neumann probes?