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And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis. This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
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AI Verified Verified: the Pluralistic post "The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI" contains the quoted wording in lines 110-112, and the page metadata attributes the post to Cory Doctorow and shows the original post date as December 5, 2025 (it also displays a later December 15, 2025 update date). Stored author, content, source URL, and date are correct. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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