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With degrees in mathematics and computer science, Dreyer has the ideal background to serve as chief data science officer at Mass General Brigham. It’s his job to oversee the dozens of AI-based algorithms that the health system currently uses in reading images, from strategies that are still being tested to those that have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since models can become outdated quickly, even approved algorithms need constant evaluation to ensure they are still working as intended. “Across the U.S. right now, there is a shortage of radiologists, not because there are fewer radiologists, but because there is so much more imaging data,” he says. “AI is being called upon to solve some of those problems in efficiency and shortages.” The AI systems that Dreyer uses typically help to triage the mountain of images that inundate doctors—from CT scans, MRIs, and the like—by picking out the ones with the most potential for showing health threats like cancer. Ultimately, machine learning could lead to more sophisticated AI tools that can detect and diagnose disease, and Dreyer is involved in discussing issues such as reimbursement for AI-based work, the security of patient information used in algorithms, and how much autonomy such technology should, and could, have in medicine. “I don’t think there is a pathway now for a truly autonomous AI to be approved in health care,” he says, pointing to the imbalance in the way AI-based algorithms and human doctors are certified to practice. For now, AI algorithms only need to pass certain tests to demonstrate their accuracy in order to be approved by the FDA for use in patients, while doctors have to complete the lengthy and continuous process of medical school, state certification and licensing, hospital certification, and continuing medical education. “At some point, as AI becomes a little more autonomous, we may have to reconsider the \[AI approval\] process,” he says. 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