Radiologists will be “toast” in 10 years, while oncologists will be replaced by GPs using artificial intelligence (AI), according to a prominent American venture capitalist and technologist.

GPs fare better in a future envisioned by billionaire Vinod Khosla, who believes AI will eventually eliminate the need for work, with more knowledgeable, higher-skilled professionals the most vulnerable to replacement during the transition period.

“Radiologists are toast. They shouldn’t be a job,” Mr Khosla told a conference for science and technology start-ups in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month.

“I will go even further to say any radiologist who plans to practise in 10 years will be killing patients every day.