One in four general practitioners are currently using artificial intelligence (AI) in their work, despite receiving little formal training or guidance from their employer, a new study has found.
Largest year-on-year survey of UK GPs Generation AI It turns out that an increasing number of doctors are using tools like . Chat GPT in daily clinical work.
Approximately 95% of physicians who say they use generative AI in their work report having no professional training, and 85% of them say their employer does not encourage its use.
Last year, researchers in the same study found that: 1 in 5 GPs were using this technology.
“In just 12 months, generative AI has gone from a taboo to a tool in British medicine,” said Dr. Charlotte Blais of Sweden’s Uppsala University and Harvard Medical School.
“Doctors are using these systems because they are useful, not because someone tells them to. The real risk is not that GPs are using AI, but that they are using it without training or supervision.”
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Why is the author right to fear AI?
Approximately 35% of physicians used AI for documentation, 27% for differential diagnosis, and 24% for treatment or referrals.
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“This should be a wake-up call,” Dr Blaise said.
“AI is already being used in everyday healthcare, and the challenge going forward is to ensure that it is deployed safely, ethically, and openly.”
Study authors from Uppsala University, Basel University, Karolinska Institutet, University of Manchester and Harvard Medical School surveyed 1,005 general practitioners across the UK.
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Is there a possibility that the AI bubble will burst?
It was discovered that Published in Digital Health on Tuesday scientific journal.
The researchers highlighted risks of using AI in clinical settings, including the technology’s tendency to get things wrong or “hallucinate” and the potential for “algorithmic discrimination” due to implicit bias in the model’s training data.
The authors also expressed concerns about patient data privacy.
Sky News has contacted the UK’s NHS for comment.
