When considering this topic, I immediately could find myself drifting to the apprehensive side of AI.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ve seen too many movies where this type of intelligence could lead us to a place where the machines have taken over humanity.\u00a0 This conversation has been going on for a very long time as machines have replaced humans in manufacturing. The smart ones started to educate themselves on mechanical engineering and repairs, as parts wear out, phew.<\/p>\n
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While listening to Chat GPT-3 and it\u2019s Impact on Education<\/em> by Michael Webb it was apparent how far down the road we already are in this discussion, and as what seems to be per usual us humans are trying to catch up!\u00a0 Michael talked about and educational solution to keep students was being able to use technology to detect cheating which leads back to the technology being able to evade detection[1]<\/a>.\u00a0 Around and around we go, I resonates with how I feel being a parent to teens in this day in age.\u00a0 They are brilliant and able to intuit how technology works and speak a language that is completely foreign to me.<\/p>\n \n Lucinda McKnight suggested \u201cEight ways to engage with AI writers in higher education\u201d and she suggested two ideas that led me down a path of discovering how AI could influence my area of study and it confirmed for the most part, my fears of where AI is going. She suggested to \u201cexplore and evaluate the different kinds of AI-based content creators that are appropriate for your discipline.\u201d[2]<\/a> And \u201cResearch and establish the specific affordances of AI-based content generators for your discipline. For example, how might it be useful to be able to produce text in multiple languages, in seconds? Or create text optimized for search engines?\u201d[3]<\/a>\u00a0 I was honestly a little afraid of what I would find in my research as I work in healthcare.\u00a0 I realize that technology and AI type of technology has helped advance our success in treating diseases and injury.\u00a0 As a Hospice clinician we have faced deep scrutiny (well-deserved thanks to a number of bad characters who were unethical and frauded the government, go here to read more if you are interested False Claims Act<\/a>.[4]<\/a>) As part of this accountability, it has become very rigid and the expectation on doctors and hospice teams to predict death has become the focus.\u00a0 I found a number of web articles where AI has become a go to for hospices to do better \u201cpredicting\u201d of hospice eligibility.\u00a0 My company moved to a different sort of electronic medical record software that is on our phones. It has become a large amount of checking off boxes and answering questions over and over again.\u00a0 On a positive note, our company has not been more compliant to all the laws and regulations over hospice then we are now.\u00a0 It gives us accountability and serves as a reminder of the information we need to have as we work with the dying.\u00a0 However, and this is a large however, it has taken away the gut instinct of a lot of my co-workers and it\u2019s soul crushing.\u00a0 As I train and encourage my co-workers as one of the administrators I often tell them (Note: Swear word coming) I tell them \u201cmake this documentation your bitch\u201d, this swear word gives me street cred as a \u201cministry\u201d person in a secular work environment.\u00a0 When I tell them this it\u2019s because all of us have gut instinct, and our own soul and intelligence and they start to lose confidence in themselves. AI can seem to do both help and hinder the process for Hospice.\u00a0 What if AI in healthcare documentation could detect a \u201cmis-step or mistake\u201d in our healthcare workers.\u00a0 Mistakes in healthcare can cause death, this is serious stuff and creates a culture of perfection.\u00a0 I could see, just as Sal Khan states in his TED talk, \u201c what if we could create personalized tutors for students, and personalized teachers assistants for teacher?\u201d[5]<\/a>\u00a0 I could see in live documenting in healthcare or bedside documenting, a healthcare tutor could detect a mistake like a wrong dosing of medication (happens often)or a missed symptom that could be a pathway to a more accurate diagnosis?\u00a0 I think it could do this in a way, like Khanmigo, where it asks a question back to create critical thinking in the healthcare worker within their lane, and ask the clinician to ask more question rather than just give the answer.\u00a0 With this in mind I could see how AI could benefit the clinician.\u00a0 In my NPO, I am hoping give courage and soulfulness back to the healthcare worker as they help patients come to terms with death and dying.\u00a0 I believe slowly (and quickly) we are losing the soul of healthcare and our healthcare workers are leaving due to no longer feeling connected to the work or experience vicarious trauma.<\/p>\n In the movie 21 Grams<\/em> it is argued that \u201cthe soul\u201d weighs 21 grams as life leaves the body\u201d.[6]<\/a>\u00a0 How appropriate I feel this concept is as I encounter what Artificial Intelligence could do to healthcare\u2026take the \u201clife\u201d out of it.\u00a0 Now I see potential as I listened to Sal Khan, on how it could help, but I cannot help but to sound the alarm that we cannot take the \u201csoul\u201d out of everything we do!\u00a0 Confidence in ourselves and our acknowledging of our own shortcomings is what weighs 21 grams.\u00a0 This is a weight loss program I don\u2019t want to fully embrace.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n [1]<\/a> \u00a0Michael Webb, ChatGPT and Its Impact on Edcuation,\u00a0https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1eMgz1LWSXLOeFrPcAMDf0z5KEwFVhAs7<\/a>, accessed September 6, 2023.<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> \u00a0\u201cEight Ways to Engage with AI Writers in Higher Education,\u201d THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect, October 14, 2022,\u00a0https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/eight-ways-engage-ai-writers-higher-education<\/a>.<\/p>\n [3]<\/a> \u00a0\u201cEight Ways to Engage with AI Writers in Higher Education,\u201d THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect, October 14, 2022,\u00a0https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/eight-ways-engage-ai-writers-higher-education<\/a>.<\/p>\n [4]<\/a> \u00a0Jim Parker, Hospices Deploy AI for Swifter Clinical Decisions, improved Compliance, (Hospice News) March 7,2022. https:\/\/hospicenews.com\/2022\/03\/04\/hospices-deploy-ai-for-swifter-clinical-decisions-improved-compliance\/<\/a><\/p>\n [5]<\/a> Sal Khan, \u201cHow AI could save (not destroy) education. 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