A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.

Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species.

“People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey Hinton said, adding that it was “just completely obvious” that within five years A.I. would outperform humans in that field.

Today, radiologists — the physician specialists in medical imaging who look inside the body to diagnose and treat disease — are still in high demand. A recent study from the…