Why Algorithmic Speed can be More Important than Algorithmic Accuracy
Jens Christian Bjerring, Jakob Thrane Mainz, Lauritz Aastrup Munch, Sissel Johanne Godtfredsen · 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) often outperforms human doctors in terms of decisional speed. For some diseases, the expected benefit of a fast but less accurate decision exceeds the benefit of a slow but more accurate one. In such cases, we argue, it is often justified to rely on a medical AI to maximise decision speed – even if the AI is less accurate than human doctors.