Sun Microsystems founder and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) will advance so far that "any radiologist who continues to practice in 10 years will be killing patients every day," according to an article on TechCrunch.
Speaking during a keynote talk at Creative Destruction Lab's Super Session in Toronto, Khosla said that "radiologists are toast" and that being a radiologist "shouldn't be a job," TechCrunch reported. Within a decade, AI-based diagnostic technology will progress to the point that radiologists will "be causing deaths because [they] choose to practice," he said.
This isn't the first time Khosla has predicted the demise of radiologists. In a 2017 podcast, Khosla said that AI would render radiologists obsolete within five years.
Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, which was an early investor in Israeli AI software developer Zebra Medical Vision.
![A normal mammogram confirmed by three-year radiologic follow-up illustrates reader-marked regions of interest (ROIs) during (A) unaided (round 1) and (B) artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted (round 2) reading. Each colored dot represents an ROI for recall by a human reader. Readers could mark more than one ROI per case, represented by multiple dots of the same color. During AI-assisted reading, the AI system displayed three visible prompts: two with suspicion of malignancy scores of 35% (left mediolateral oblique [L MLO] and craniocaudal [L CC]) and one with a suspicion of malignancy score of 10% (right craniocaudal [R CC]), shown as polygonal overlays. Without AI, six of 10 readers (60%) marked a false-positive ROI. With AI assistance, this fell to two of 10 (20%). R MLO = right mediolateral oblique.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-radiology-mammogram-ai-auto-bias.H0bYO8QlWs.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
