Thanks Russell, I read with interest and thanks for sharing your perspective. A lot of the points you are making are similar to points i am making in the rough draft of an article i am hoping to publish on this issue, with a specific focus on the potential legal implications. I liked in particular these two points, “A human - the usual ‘admin’ in the NHS - would have had to spend approx 4 hours trying to make sense of what was transcribed. Waste of time - this was abandoned”, I have dyslexia and i find it harder and a far longer process checking AI transcription than just getting on with it and writing it myself, and “AI generated content and analyses must never be allowed wholesale into records” - I could not agree more with this point, and i think this has significant legal implications as well.
A sentence from my draft article seems to go along with some of your train of thought “This is not simply a question of ethics or innovation; it is crucially a question of legal literacy within the profession. The risk is not that practitioners are careless, more that these systems are being pitched, purchased and deployed faster than the profession can interpret the legal implications.”