NYC nurses claim hospitals quietly rolled out AI tech that’s threatening jobs — and patients’ safety

Source: New York Post

New York nurses leaders are blasting the city’s hospital system for quietly rolling out artificial intelligence tools they claim are threatening their jobs — and patient safety. Hospital administrators and health care have already shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to launch language models with little input from those on the frontlines, nurses said at a recent meeting of the “State of Nursing” Committee on Hospitals. “What do we do? What if the machines stop working? How do we go back to monitor that patient?” Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said at the Nov.