The study, which was published on Wednesday in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal, found that over the course of six months, clinicians became over-reliant on AI recommendations and became themselves “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance.”

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

A new study warned that using artificial intelligence to detect cancer actually made doctors worse at their jobs. Researchers wrote in a paper published in the Lancet journal Wednesday that doctors’ ability to detect cancer dropped by 20 percent after implementing an AI tool to help them with diagnostics for three months.