don’t hear much is that AI is neither the harbinger of a dystopia, nor a marker of a utopia.
What it is is a truly liberating technology. Even right now, when you go to the doctor, whether it be a physician or psychologist or whatever, that practitioner can listen intently to you and not pay attention to notes. Why? Because of AI. Their AI scribe records the session, and takes good notes. The practitioner is thus freed to actually treat and interact with PEOPLE, not to be a mere technician frantically defending against legal liability.
I remember how my sister would call me all despondent and even crying because she would stay up until after midnight every night doing chart notes, and yet still kept falling behind. She would try to catch up on the weekends.
She could not just treat and help these people with hemophilia who had gone to her, she had to remember what had gone on and then go create notes for each patient after the clinic closed. And on weekends. Honestly, it was hell.
But now there are AI scribes. What an AI scribe does is allow the practitioner to focus on treatment, not on documentation. And people are far better off for it. Practitioners can focus on the patient (which likely is why they went into medicine in the first place–radiologists excepted, of course), not on the upcoming note. And, SURPRISE!, that makes treatment better. For everyone.
That is just one example. There are many others.