# May 04 2026 - When AI Beats Doctors: Diagnostics, Ethics & DramaWhen AI Beats Doctors: Diagnostics, Ethics & Drama

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Podcast: [The AI Signal & The AI Noise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-signal-the-ai-noise-7399318)
Published: 2026-05-04T03:22:41+00:00
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Duration seconds: 604

## Resource

Harvard research finds an AI outdiagnoses ER doctors; ChatGPT and Perplexity outperform Siri in CarPlay tests; Microsoft faces backlash for injecting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' tags into commits; a new benchmark exposes wildly inconsistent AI ethical judgments.

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