AHA, clinicians worry about administration plans to relax AI safeguards

The American Hospital Association and some clinicians worry an administration proposal to eliminate regulations requiring new artificial intelligence products to be tested on actual users and to ensure AI tech’s decisions are transparent to nurses and physicians could undermine care. They maintain AI transcribing technology could miss or suppress vital details about patients’ conditions, possibly harming their care. For example, AI technology cannot detect the emotional tone of patients’ voices, causing it to miss important cues regarding patients’ behavioral health, clinicians say. Clinicians spend time correcting the AI notes, but safety researchers worry clinicians may not catch all errors, resulting in clinicians relying on incorrect information. (KFF news article, 5/13/26)