New Legislation in Delaware Aims to Prevent AI Agents from Practicing Medicine
If you have been reading the news lately, you have probably heard of all sorts of professionals getting caught using artificial intelligence inappropriately. For example, multiple lawyers have been caught submitting court filings that cite cases and statutes that do not exist. Scientists have written papers with AI and forgotten to delete AI boilerplate language, such as “As an advanced language model, this is how I would explain my research in simple terms.” These errors may sound harmless at first, but they demonstrate an alarming trend of professionals offloading their duties to AI and large language models. Perhaps even more alarming is that AI models and agents are often “unaware” of their own limitations, being designed to “fake it until they make it.”
New legislation in Delaware aims to stop AI models from “making it” in the field of medicine. Specifically, HB 191 prevents “nonhuman entities” from being formally licensed to practice medicine & from representing themselves using professional titles such as “doctor” or “nurse.”
It is not exactly clear how licensing boards will interpret the legislation as it relates to professionals using AI in their regular scope of practice. Unfortunately, that means you are the guinea pigs. As a result, professionals can be disciplined, including having their licenses suspended or revoked, for “inappropriately using AI” even when no clear standard has been set.
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The Risk of AI in the Professional’s Workplace
The biggest risk for professionals isn’t that AI will replace them; it’s that they will trust AI too much. We are seeing a rise in “unsupervised automation.” A common example is when doctors or nurses use AI to draft medical notes or patient instructions without properly checking the AI’s output. For physicians facing disciplinary action, this creates a new standard of competency. Boards are beginning to view the unverified use of AI output as a failure of professional judgment, such as failing to properly supervise one of your physician’s assistants.
AI is famous for “hallucinating,” i.e., confidently making statements that are utterly incorrect and/or incoherent. If you sign off on a chart note drafted by AI that contains an error, the medical board will not blame the software. They will blame you.
The danger is not limited to those in the medical field. For example, accountants who improperly rely on AI to analyze spreadsheets without doing their due diligence to ensure the information is protected and processed correctly could be investigated for gross negligence or dishonesty. Practically all licensed professionals could be disciplined for similar alleged misconduct.
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