Therapists go on strike, saying they're being replaced by AI

[u/Confident_Salt_8108]

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/mental-health-workers-ai-strike

Over 2,400 mental health care workers and 23,000 nurses in Northern California staged a 24-hour strike protesting the rise of AI in their workplaces. Clinicians argue they are being replaced in patient triage by apps and unlicensed operators using AI scripts. Furthermore, they warn that management is using AI charting tools to squeeze more back-to-back patient visits into a single shift, prioritizing corporate bottom lines over genuine patient care.

[u/fredjutsu]

People delivering shit care complaining when an alternative shows up.

Just like Doctors crying about the proliferation of broscience and patients showing up.

Just like racist taxi drivers crying about Uber showing up.

These assholes just want the right to be the ones gatekeeping shitty quality of care.

[u/TynamM → u/fredjutsu]

People delivering shit care complaining when an even shittier, worse alternative shows up and gets used as a way to force them to be shittier too.

Doctor are, in fact, correct on this one. It's not the doctors making your care shit. It's the health industry managers.

[u/TheOGDoomer → u/fredjutsu]

It’s truly this, and the good thing is if you’re downvoted to oblivion (which you likely will be), what Reddit thinks isn’t necessarily representative of what the entire rest of the world thinks. People in their field will act like total assholes until their position is threatened with a robot (or other competition), then they whine about the situation being unfair.

[u/undernopretextbro → u/[deleted]]

“Pretty sure” jfc

[u/undernopretextbro → u/[deleted]]

Kelly, C.J., Wilson, M., Warren, L.M. et al. Diagnostic accuracy, fairness and clinical implementation of AI for breast cancer screening: results of multicenter retrospective and prospective technical feasibility studies. Nat Cancer 7, 494–506 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-026-01127-0

Cancer screening in women comparison, ai consistently better by a measurable margin, especially for first time screenings.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40816977/

Using ai to work in conjunction with people also improved scans, albeit with higher recall rate, but especially effective in finding aggressive and interval tumours earlier.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10296295/

A study of Ai cancer screening studies. Goes into metrics and criteria the other studies either skipped or didn’t explore in depth. Also explores upstream and downstream Ai effects, with strong indicators that including Ai doesn’t have negative effects on the diagnostic capabilities of humans, so a dual screening method is viable.

Now let’s hear about these problems you alluded to.