The Value of System 1 Models in Medicine

No. 45 of 245 · arXiv · Xiufeng Yang, Konstantinos Vrettos, Zeineb Ben Chaaben et al. · published 23 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC

AI & machine learning
Paper

3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked

A study tested four "System 1" AI models, which answer clinical questions instantly with a probability score rather than generating free text, across 86 public medical tasks in 20 languages.

Read the original at arxiv.org. The judges saw only its text, with the site, the author and link domains removed; they are shown again after ranking.

Score

0.69total under rubric v2.0Contestedjudges differ by 0.42 on audience breadth

Significance0.68
Reader interest0.73
Audience breadth0.59
Practical relevance0.67
Substantiated0.89
Technical depth0.72
New information0.89
Counts against: Promotional0.04
Counts against: Overclaim0.20

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.66	0.55	0.82	0.68	0.27	+0.25	+0.169
Reader interest	0.65	0.60	0.93	0.73	0.33	+0.20	+0.145
Audience breadth	0.56	0.40	0.82	0.59	0.42 , above the contested threshold	+0.10	+0.059
Practical relevance	0.67	0.55	0.78	0.67	0.23	+0.15	+0.100
Substantiated	0.95	0.80	0.91	0.89	0.15	+0.10	+0.089
Technical depth	0.71	0.60	0.86	0.72	0.26	+0.10	+0.072
New information	0.91	0.80	0.97	0.89	0.17	+0.10	+0.089
Promotional	0.06	0.05	0.01	0.04	0.05	−0.15	−0.006
Overclaim	0.22	0.30	0.08	0.20	0.22	−0.15	−0.030
Sum of contributions							+0.688
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.689

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.