AI will tell NHS patients if they need a GP appointment [View all]

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Source: Telegraph via Yahoo

The move to use AI chatbots as the front door to primary care marks one of the biggest changes to the way patients access family doctors for a generation.

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If a GP appointment is recommended, a clinician will decide whether one is needed and how urgently the patient should be seen. In other cases, the AI will recommend alternatives such as pharmacies, self-care or emergency services.

During the trial, every recommendation will be checked by clinicians, who will be able to override the chatbot's advice retrospectively, calling patients back if they believe a GP appointment or more urgent care is needed.

However, the long-term aim is to remove that safeguard, if the trial shows AI works safely, allowing it to advise millions of patients without clinical back-up.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ai-tell-nhs-patients-gp-213000250.html

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Hallucinating chatbots, advising patients without any clinical backup by humans.

This is crazy. Unfortunately the current UK government is entirely too close to AI companies

And here in the US we have Dr. 0z just as eager to have chatbots offering medical advice.

See my OP in GD about a study published a few months ago showing how badly chatbots fail at giving the correct medical advice:

'Unbelievably dangerous': experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies (The Guardian)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221066192