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. 2024 Feb 19;11(1):100007.
doi: 10.1016/j.fhj.2024.100007. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Clinicians risk becoming 'liability sinks' for artificial intelligence

Tom Lawton  1   2 , Phillip Morgan  3 , Zoe Porter  2 , Shireen Hickey  1 , Alice Cunningham  1 , Nathan Hughes  2 , Ioanna Iacovides  4 , Yan Jia  2 , Vishal Sharma  1 , Ibrahim Habli  2
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Clinicians risk becoming 'liability sinks' for artificial intelligence

Tom Lawton et al. Future Healthc J. .
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Conflict of interest statement

TL has received an honorarium for a lecture on this topic from Al Sultan United Medical Co and is head of clinical artificial intelligence at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and a potential liability sink All other authors report no conflicts of interest

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Current prevalent AI model.
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AI model with alternative outputs to inform patient/clinician dialogue.
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Advanced AI model capable of sustaining dialogue with the patient.
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