> I don't think you can just look at the statistics though. What I mean is that, the main issue is that the category of mistakes they make are going to be inherently different from the category of mistakes that humans make

Would you rather have a X% chance of a loved one dying from a human-category mistake? Or a 0.5X% chance of a loved one dying from a ML-category mistake? I would take the latter in a heartbeat. Why waste time optimizing for "categories" when you can optimize for your loved ones not dying

While I agree with you, not everyone does.

You and I are thinking with a purely logical thought process, but most people don’t reason that way.

A lot of people want to be able to hold someone accountable, and that is more important than the pure probabilities.

They want to be able to blame a person for making a mistake.