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OpenAI's Hospital Play Comes with a Warning from the Hospitals Themselves
Boston Children's Hospital is deploying OpenAI's new healthcare product. The executive leading the rollout says an AI casualty is "very likely." He's doing it anyway. The math behind that decision reveals how hospitals are thinking about risk.
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John Brownstein runs innovation at Boston Children's Hospital. He's deploying OpenAI's new healthcare product across his organization. He's also predicting it will hurt someone.
"I'm worried about the potential of an AI adverse event that could set the whole field back," Brownstein told Bloomberg this week. Then the admission. "I think it's very likely we'll see it."
That sentence should stop you. A senior executive at one of America's top pediatric hospitals, signing contracts with OpenAI while publicly acknowledging the technology will probably cause harm. Not might. Will. He's betting the benefits outweigh the casualties. Parents bringing their kids to Boston Children's didn't get a vote on that bet.
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