It is Not Time to Kick Out Radiologists

recent original article "When can we Kick (Some) Humans 'Out of the Loop'?An Examination of the Use of AI in Medical Imaging for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis", boldly challenged the prevailing notion on medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI).Currently, it is widely thought that AI is a support tool under human supervision, AI must not fully replace humans, and humans remain crucial to healthcare (Alowais et al. 2023).Instead, Muyskens et al. suggested that under certain conditions, some healthcare processes could be entirely AI-driven with no human involvement.They argued that Spine AI (Hallinan et al. 2021), which automates preoperative lumbar spine MRI measurements, is equivalent to human radiologists and can fully replace them with little harm (Muyskens et al. 2025).While we are not bioethics experts, we find this article ambitious and highly stimulating.However, as experts in both radiology and AI, we must raise one critical opposition.The authors have a serious misbelief that AI will soon be able to fully replace human radiologists, which potentially harms patients.