Should AI assist in surgical decision-making?

There's a push for AI/ML to reduce the staggering number of preventable deaths due to surgical error. The first and second leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease and cancer. The third is now coronavirus. Astoundingly, the answer is preventable medical errors. Surgical errors in particular account for 26% of these deaths and cost somewhere north of $36 billion in the U.S. I did a double take when I read those stats while reporting this story.