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For now, I can avoid AI because it's easy to spot. Even product website AI chatbots are poor imitations of people. (Honestly, the mental acrobatics people must go through to talk to one of these things as a trusted advisor baffles me. It's a fucking machine, you're talking to a box, a piece of software. Stop anthropomorphizing the damn things. But, maybe that's just me.)
In the near future I expect for anything important to me (namely, doctors, lawyers, friends, advisors), I'll only trust face to face conversations--but then, no more so than I ever have. Because, they won't perfect androids in my lifetime.
The threat is that for paid positions, like doctors, etc., the option for face to face may become too expensive for anyone but the rich. Because, you know the rich won't take digital advice. Hell, they're trying to replace teachers in public schools with machines, right now. The rich never let their kids have phones when they're young. Or, at least not the parents who give a fuck about their kids, which seems not many filthy rich do. Let alone will they let some machine teach them in school.
My girlfriend works in the medical field and she told me that their doctors and psychologists all use some form of AI, mainly chatgpt. So even if you're really careful, someone might still feed your information to tge cloud.
Hi doctor here. There's an app here call open evidence. I've tried it out but I don't use it. I think younger docs are more prone to using these tools than older ones.
Don't lots of countries have very strict rules about were medical information can be sent to and how it must be managed (I believe in the US it's called the HIPA)?
@Aceticon @technology In the US it is called HIPAA.
Among other things the a law directs ensuring and protecting the privacy of an individual’s “PII”, or Personally Identifiable Information, which includes but is not limited to health and medical information. Basically, any person or entity that “touches” PII is required to be certified by the National Institute of Health. Training is online. Depending on your role,the training might be customized. For example, I am certified for scientific studies involving human subjects. Only people and entities that receive any Federal funding are required to follow HIPAA. The penalty for even one violation may include loss of Federal funding *forever* so those with health-related research take it especially seriously. NIH has a hotline to report violations and they DO investigate.
HIPAA covers PHI, not PII