The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Frontier Models on Medical Benchmarks
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- #Benchmark Testing
- #AI in Healthcare
- #GPT-5
- Large frontier models like GPT-5 achieve top scores on medical benchmarks but show brittleness under stress tests.
- Stress tests reveal models guess correctly even without key inputs, flip answers with trivial prompt changes, and fabricate flawed reasoning.
- Current benchmarks reward test-taking tricks over genuine medical understanding, masking failure modes.
- Clinician-guided rubric evaluation shows benchmarks vary in what they measure but are treated interchangeably.
- Medical benchmark scores do not reflect real-world readiness; AI in healthcare needs robustness, sound reasoning, and alignment with medical demands.