Artificial intelligence (AI) is already better than humans at reading specific radiographic findings. It will impact phycisians’ jobs, but because it can currently only do very specific things, it is not yet “that robot chasing you down a dark alley [going after your job]”, says Ido Weinberg (Boston, USA), who outlined what vascular and cardiovascular specialists should do to harness the power of AI and big data at VEITHsymposium 2018.