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Ai gave the wrong answer and the patient dies - your fault.
You didnt trust ai, the patient dies - also your fault.
Good. But I would like to see it go further and have a provision that allows the doctor to pass that blame on to the place they work if using that AI is being forced on them.
Because it's an undergraduate student at best.
good
Not really. Workers are left taking the blame for forced implementation from the executive level. They save the costs and work staff harder... But when it fucks up then the workers can take the blame. Responsibility for this needs to sit higher up with those who forced faulty tools on everyone. AI is being forced into the NHS against all protests and objections.
Does the "following orders" defense work sometimes?
Almost always
Especially if you have archived that email saying ftfu and AI. I've been hoarding these since this idiocy started.
Only when standards are not at their highest? If so, that wouldn't look good.
Workers are left taking the blame for forced implementation from the executive level.
Are the individual workers being sued, or is the hospital?
Then they have an obligation to fight back. Or they can lose their job because they blindly followed AI.
I can understand this to some degree, but I largely disagree.
AI is a tool. The user of the tool should be the one that carries responsibility. I don't have the stats, but I imagine that most jobs that relied on hand tools suffered more injury when power tools were introduced, but again, it's up to the person using the tool to use it responsibly.
Granted, thats not a perfect analogy because AI definitely doesn't present the same marked improvements as power tools, but the responsibility of the user doesn't change.
The power tools are faulty, and they're being forced to use them. You're assuming the people using the AI have the power to reject what the AI says. I'm not sure that's true.
Now that they're personally liable for what it outputs, they definitely can. Your boss can't force you to break the law.
Well, if you want to lose your job, you're right!
Being liable for medical malpractice and breaking the law are almost completely mutually exclusive.
It's almost always a civil suit, often between insurance companies.
Everyone wants to use AI to think for them. Nobody wants to be responsible for the results.
If a doctor relies on AI without verifying or understanding the answer, he deserves all the consequences that will fall on his head.
As they should!
