AI seems to explain this better than as framed:

>...the body of the article doesn’t describe a panel of physicians making predictions at all. The headline says “AI fares better than doctors,” but the text says the model outperformed “risk scores currently relied upon by doctors,” i.e., standard scoring tools clinicians use—not the judgments of the surgeons on the case or an outside panel.

This in general should be expected. A ML does certain amount of fitting. As such end results are probably better than human done fitting. The trade-off to my understanding is that you might not understand the algorithm used.

You need to ask do you prefer better black box or weaker white box which you can understand and reason about. For many tasks black box is fine. For this I wonder which one I would prefer...