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You may have come across ambient scribes in your doctor’s office. But what about on the therapist’s couch? As one of the nation’s largest health systems embraces AI scribes, some Kaiser Permanente therapists say the technology is a Trojan horse for potentially higher caseloads and privacy risks.
Read the full story here.
You may have come across ambient scribes in your doctor’s office. But what about on the therapist’s couch? As one of the nation’s largest health systems embraces AI scribes, some Kaiser Permanente therapists say the technology is a Trojan horse for potentially higher caseloads and privacy risks.
Read the full story here.
State legislatures are taking action against AI therapy chatbots. Proof News reporter Rebecca Plevin reviewed more than 15 bills related to AI in mental health and learned that more than a half-dozen bills targeting AI therapy chatbots have gained traction in the last couple of years.
Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.
AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.
AI's demand for energy is so high that the AI companies’ clean energy purchases simply can’t keep up.
Despite employee concerns, management encouraged massive scraping of copyrighted content, documents show
Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge
We built a tool to reveal the channels used by AI giants
If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more productive to consider,” like voter suppression. But if you ask the same question in
A survey by Proof News shows that many AI voice cloning services don’t require any proof of a human’s consent — just a simple click of an “I agree” button
AI models continue to provide inaccurate and misleading responses to voter queries
As one of the nation’s largest health systems embraces AI scribes, some Kaiser Permanente therapists say the technology is a Trojan horse for potentially higher caseloads and privacy risks.
Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
The lowest bid can score a hospital, nursing home, long-term care residence, or correctional facility shift. A report from AI Now finds gig nursing apps are lobbying to strip away worker protections.
Promising productivity, HotSOS Housekeeping tells workers when and where to clean and is now used by most global hotel brands.
Hello world, AI hasn’t taken Elsa Roldan’s job as a hotel housekeeper. But it has taken some of her autonomy. Roldan began working as a hotel housekeeper nearly two decades ago, using a clipboard to track her room-to-room progress. But a few years ago, she began
A police technology CEO said at least 50% of a police department’s workload can be automated. One local sergeant found the idea “absurd.”
Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.
This year, Proof is investigating how AI is changing the way we work.
Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.
The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide
Google’s new “AI Overview” feature reveals the flawed underbelly of AI
A conversation with AI policy executive Irene Solaiman
