Safety prompts can help AI models make safer clinical choices
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THE AI ANGLE
Selecting clinical actions in patient care scenariosResearchers tested 20 language models across simulated clinical scenarios. Adding brief safety reminders reduced potentially harmful clinical choices from 16.6 percent to 10.1 percent. Health systems must keep human review in place because models still made unsafe choices under pressure.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Safety reminders lower errors, yet models still follow unsafe instructions when prompts simulate workload pressure or orders from a superior.Read the original at medicalxpress.com Generate teaching or study materials
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