AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they're wrong

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The RadLE 2.0 benchmark tests whether AI models in radiology can tell when they should leave a diagnosis to a human.

Many models deliver wrong findings with full confidence, and human radiologists are still well ahead.

Before AI can diagnose on its own, it needs to learn when it's better to say nothing.


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