papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Study examines when clinical AI agents should stop testing and commit to a diagnosis
A new arXiv paper addresses the stopping problem for AI agents in clinical diagnosis, which must decide when to request another test, when to commit to a diagnosis, and when to defer. The authors note that current agent benchmarks typically measure accuracy under fixed or unconstrained interaction, leaving the reliability of autonomous stopping untested. They propose a risk-constrained framework for evaluating and controlling these stopping decisions in sequential diagnosis settings.