India, May 21 -- A Dubai-based doctor made a surprising claim that artificial intelligence could possibly take over his position and joked about having to apply to McDonald's once he loses his job.

Dr Mohammad Fawzi Katranji, a pulmonologist for 18 years who specialises in critical care and sleep medicine, took to Instagram to share his reaction after he used an AI tool to study X-rays from patients to see if the cutting-edge technology could make the same findings as him.

"So I am about to lose my job. This is scary because I developed a skill over 20 years, which lets me look at an X-ray and point to pneumonia," he said, while pointing to an X-ray of a pair of lungs.

He flips the screen to show another version of the scan, this time ...