[swatcoder]

I don't spend much time worrying about AI ethics, but bringing AI close to patient interactions and record-keeping in healthcare seems grossly premature and irresponsible. There are countless brilliant applications of AI and the last one we need is a mediocre automated transcriptionist that distances a doctor from their responsibility to engage with the patient and can bear no accountability for error.

This is a task that perhaps can be supported with AI some day, but there are fields that deserve the application of a mature technology, not the gold rush rush game of integrating today's hottest thing.

[D13Fd]

The transcription part doesn't bother me. That's just advanced speech-to-text.

The summarization part, though, is dangerous. It's a very quick path to us losing all faith in our own medical records. Any way you slice it, no matter how much you train it, it's still going to be vulnerable to hallucination errors that slip by the reviewing doctor and become part of the patient's medical history.

[ar7hur]

I understand your concerns. Our objectives are, on the contrary, to reduce the doctor/patient distance that was created by EHRs and all the required administrative processes. We already measure that when AI takes care of this stuff, doctors do better engage with patients.

[ttpphd]

"I don't spend much time worrying about AI ethics"

Maybe you should re-evaluate whether that's the right choice based on your own comment, especially when ethics and safety experts are being fired by big tech co.