Clinics are installing AI scribes all over our health system.
These AI tools use large-language models to transcribe and summarise the conversation between you and your doctor. The scribe can also use this summary to create letters and in some cases suggest diagnosis or treatment plans.
But AI scribes come with significant risks: risks to patient privacy, risks to the quality of healthcare, and risks to doctors’ legal liability.
It is entirely reasonable for a person to reject the use of AI scribes in the course of their healthcare. But patients are being refused healthcare for precisely this reason.
No-one in Australia should be denied healthcare, full stop. But especially no-one should be denied healthcare because they don’t want to be forced to give their private and potentially sensitive medical data to an AI corporation.
Members of the public need to be able to refuse their sensitive medical information being transcribed or summarised using AI software. Our government needs to provide everyone with the right to a ‘no questions asked’ refusal of an AI scribe.
Patients need a legal right to refuse AI scribes without retaliation. Doctors need to be protected from AI scribe errors. AI scribes and the corporations that make them need to be regulated alongside other medical products.
Sign the petition to join our campaign to get regulators and legislators to step-up and provide Australians with a legally-enshrined right to refuse AI systems without facing repercussions to our health.