The writing was good, they made the human aspect of it abundantly clear. An overworked resident in an understaffed and under resourced emergency room tries to get more done faster and lets AI hallucinations slip because it’s 90% right which seems good enough on paper.

March 31, 2026 - 13:19 UTC

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i remember a really old bruce schneier article where he's discussing a system that does big-5 analysis on video feeds of people waiting in line at an airport (to detect terrists!) and he's like hello base rate fallacy, maybe one in a million people in the world are terrorists…
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…so even a system that's 99.9% accurate is gonna net tens of thousands of false positives a day given the sheer volume of people going through american airports

ie something that's 90% right is 10% wrong and you don't know which 10%, so what's the consequence of that
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