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‘So Inaccurate, It’s Ridiculous’: New Way GPs Are Putting Your Privacy at Risk

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Patient privacy is being put at risk by the use of unregulated artificial intelligence-enabled scribes in GP consultations and psychology sessions, a new report has found.

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The rapid adoption of unregulated AI-enabled scribes in Australian GP and psychology consultations is raising significant privacy and data security concerns according to a new report. These frontier AI tools, used to transcribe and summarize sensitive medical discussions, often operate without clear governance frameworks or robust accuracy testing. While these systems do not currently present existential risks, their unverified performance and data handling practices highlight critical gaps in domestic AI safety and healthcare policy. The reported inaccuracies in transcription further underscore the potential for patient harm through misdiagnosis or clinical errors.

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