Investor pressure may be driving risky AI medical device launches
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After citing that one xray-machine example in programming classes for 20+ years, we will be able cite more deadly medical software incidents :)
Are you talking about the Therac-25?
It was not an x-ray machine, it was a radiation therapy machine that could use x-rays for therapy.
The WTYP podcast has a 3.5h long episode about it:
https://youtu.be/7EQT1gVsE6I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
So don't give them what they want. Don't give those schmucks control of your companies. Fuck them investors.