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Evidence Based Birth®

EBB 394 - Team EBB's Stance on AI in our Workplace

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Kids & Family, Medicine, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how people search for information, including how families learn about pregnancy and birth. As this technology grows, it raises important questions about accuracy, ethics, and the role of human expertise in healthcare information.
 
In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Dekker and Dr. Sara Ailshire share a behind-the-scenes look at how Evidence Based Birth® developed its own AI policies. They discuss concerns about misinformation, bias, privacy, and environmental impact, as well as the potential effects on critical thinking and human connection.
 
Learn why EBB has chosen to avoid the use of AI in our research, and what that means both for our team and for you.
 
(03:22) Why EBB began developing an AI policy 
(10:39) Defining AI, generative AI, LLMs, and hallucinations 
(17:03) Ethical concerns: Accuracy, bias, and risks to evidence-based information 
(20:14) Environmental impact of AI and data centers 
(21:47) Privacy concerns and data security risks 
(26:21) Intellectual property, sustainability, and loss of research context 
(27:03) Humanitarian concerns and the impact of AI on jobs and communities 
(31:24) AI's potential effects on cognition and critical thinking 
(37:30) Why EBB takes a cautious, evidence-based approach to AI 
(38:20) Research team policy
(42:06) Content team policy
(45:01) Programs team policy and guidance for applicants 
(47:32) Hiring practices and commitment to human review
(52:29) Final takeaways: EBB's overall stance on AI 
 
References

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. On today's podcast, we're going to talk about EBB's stance on the use of AI in our workplace.

0:11.3

Welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of

0:18.2

Evidence-based Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families

0:25.3

and professionals around the world.

0:27.8

As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.

0:31.4

See eBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.

0:36.7

Hi, everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the

0:39.5

Evidence-based Birth podcast. So today we are going to talk a little bit about a topic you

0:45.1

might not have expected to hear from us about, we're going to talk about AI and evidence-based

0:52.0

birth's stance on the use of AI in our company.

0:56.2

So in the past two years, we have seen an explosion of the use in AI, both by the general

1:03.7

public, but we're also hearing about increases in usage by birth workers and by pregnant

1:09.2

expecting families.

1:12.5

And in general, AI has been growing markedly over the past several years. There was a recent white paper released by researchers

1:18.4

at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard, and Open AI. And in that study,

1:24.5

they estimated that there are approximately 700 million users of chat GPT,

1:29.7

and that around 18 million messages are sent each week by users to AI.

1:35.2

Over the past couple of years, use of AI tools such as chat GPT have changed as users are moving

1:41.9

away from just asking technical questions about coding or asking for assistance drafting an email, and instead it's shifting towards asking for information in-depth, researching topics, asking for guidance on personal issues such as mental health issues, and much more.

1:59.3

We've also been hearing from birth professionals

2:01.5

about how parents are using AI to answer questions that they have about pregnancy and childbirth,

2:06.9

and we have witnessed some birth professionals themselves starting to use AI to assist them as they

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