I had an AI experience this week so I just started seeing a new doctor

and I go to my first sort of intake appointment with this doctor and the doctor

you know comes into the room nice guy he sets this little thing

down on the table next to him it's basically like a like a phone but the

screen is off and it's got a little microphone attached to it and I'm thinking okay he knows I'm a

podcaster he's trying to make me feel comfortable. In case you have anything you

want to say and want to kind of get it down you can do it in the office. Exactly and

then he tells me this is my AI scribe.

A scribe.

We haven't seen scribes as a job in this country for thousands of years.

Since medieval times.

No, but the scribes are the people who accompany doctors when they're meeting with patients and write down what people say.

So now this job is being taken over by AI and the doctor explained to me that he has this

app that just sits on this little phone that's purpose built for this kind of thing

And it will take notes on everything we say during the meeting and it'll condense you know our notes down into a visit report and a summary and it'll put

it into my file and like that will save him tons of paperwork.

That's a bit and sort of based on everything that it that it writes down about you

that's all fed into Facebook so that it can show you

targeted at us on Instagram is that right? I think HIPAA protects that but we should

check on I didn't read the fine print. I'm Kevin Rousa, tech columnist at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

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