Investor pressure may be driving risky AI medical device launches

https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/30/investor-pressure-risky-ai-medical-devices/

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PapstJL4U@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 240d (2 replies)

After citing that one xray-machine example in programming classes for 20+ years, we will be able cite more deadly medical software incidents :)

stoy@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 240d (1 reply)

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

ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee · 1 pts · 239d

So don't give them what they want. Don't give those schmucks control of your companies. Fuck them investors.