Vinod Khosla predicts AI will replace human oncologists

While much of the conversation around AI and jobs is focused on widespread job losses in sectors like trucking, venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla thinks that there's a high-paying job on the chopping block: oncology. "I can't imagine why a human oncologist would add value, given the amount of data in oncology," he said during a panel conversation hosted by MIT in San Francisco today. "They can't possibly comprehend all of the things that are possible." His comments were part of a broader point that education will not be enough to stem the economic upheaval and job loss that comes about as part of the growth of artificial intelligence. He doesn't believe that human radiologists will exist in five years as a result, for example.