Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

I’ve used AI for medical transcription before and it is absolutely incredible. It’s not just a word for word text, but a detailed clinical breakdown of everything discussed.

All you have to do is simply read the damn thing thoroughly and correct whatever minor errors pop up.

Takes 95% less time.

I’m unsure if there’s an ethical issue with putting patients medical records in the data machine.

Medical AI has guardrails out the wazoo. By the time it’s made available to a physician, it’s probably been reviewed by a council, vetted by IT, and negotiated heavily by Legal. If the data leaves the premises, it’ll be thoroughly protected and isolated.

That said, fuck AI. I’d give up medical transcription to get the environment, economy, and sanity back. Musk’s data center is running dozens of natural gas turbines in a low-income, primarily Black neighborhood 11 miles down the road from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It’s positively ghoulish.