Decision check
What If the AI Messes Something Up?
This is a reasonable concern. In healthcare, mistakes matter — which is why scope and control are critical.
Where risk actually comes from
- •Systems operating without boundaries
- •Making decisions they shouldn’t
- •Lack of escalation paths
- •No auditability
Technology isn’t risky — unchecked autonomy is.
How AI reception is typically constrained
- •Follows fixed scripts
- •Captures information without interpreting it
- •Escalates exceptions to humans
- •Logs every interaction
It doesn’t diagnose, decide, or improvise.
Why mistakes are easier to catch
- •AI interactions are recorded, structured, reviewable
- •Issues become more visible, not less
Bottom line
The question isn’t “what if AI makes a mistake?” It’s whether there are guardrails and human override.