Politico April 25, 2024
Nurses in California are fighting the use of artificial intelligence in their workplaces.
How so? Members of the California Nurses Association protested outside Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center this week. They said they fear the health care firm’s adoption of AI tools undermines their profession and puts patients at risk.
“What we are witnessing in our hospitals is the degradation and devaluation of our nursing practice through the use of these untested technologies,” Michelle Gutierrez-Vo, the association’s president, said in a statement.
Wide angle: In November, Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United — of which the California association is part — attended an AI policy forum sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and told the New...
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