AI and Medicine

[CCCSD]

Wait no longer...

Disability Rights Groups Sue to Overturn California’s Physician-Assisted Death Law - California Healthline

Disability rights advocates and two individuals with disabilities sued Tuesday to overturn the state's physician-assisted death law, arguing it is unconstitutional, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, and makes it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren't imminent...

californiahealthline.org

Yeah…but this requires a live person.

I mean the AI says to kill yourself. Then contacts the Rx computer and fills the script.

 

[ffemt8978]

Yeah…but this requires a live person.

I mean the AI says to kill yourself. Then contacts the Rx computer and fills the script.

Makes me wonder how the Third Party Doctrine and AI records will interact. I can easily see a scenario where an over eager law enforcement type claims that since the AI is not a medical professional, the records it generates are not PHI.

 

[CCCSD]

Makes me wonder how the Third Party Doctrine and AI records will interact. I can easily see a scenario where an over eager law enforcement type claims that since the AI is not a medical professional, the records it generates are not PHI.

Yep. A whole new area of law…overseen by an AI Judge in an electronic courtroom.

 

[Seirende]

I think it will be an excellent adjunct. It'll never be just AI doing medicine, but it will be a very useful tool.
The nerds are playing around with human/computer cooperation in chess, as a parallel example.

Advanced chess - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I myself maybe am a case study... I'm taking flaxseed oil now after using ChatGPT to educate myself further on vegetarian nutrition and learning that fatty acids are easy to miss having enough of. It's a very efficient way to sort through masses of information very quickly. I think it will have applications in patient education with oversight, and I think it will make incredible leaps in preventing deaths due to human error

 

[Seirende]

Definitely very easy to give the emerging technology a spin.

https://chat.openai.com/

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

 

[Seirende]

Therapy chatbots have very limited applications (pun accidental) as of yet. Some psychoeducation, symptom tracking, and cognitive exercises that I've seen. May be useful for people with mild symptoms who can't get in to see a mental health provider for months, as is often the case.

 

[Akulahawk]

Well, I personally think our biggest challenge will be having to deal with an AI teenager...