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Choose your role, then choose a situation. You will see prepared questions you can copy and take to a visit, a team meeting, or a conversation at home.
School tools, companions, homework, a child's inner life at 2 a.m. You are already in the story.
For I am a parent or caregiver
A way to begin
Who is this for — the person, or the people who worry about the person?
Does the elder understand what is listening, and can they refuse?
What happens to a recorded conversation with a nurse, a child, a grief?
Is this adding a relationship, or replacing one that was already thin?
If it gives health advice, who is accountable when it is wrong?
Companion apps for the elderly
AI companionship for older adults raises a choice between adding support and replacing human contact or care that the person still needs.
Geriatric AI
Geriatric AI risk arises when tools overlook the varied needs of older people, including multiple health conditions, many medicines and different care goals.
AI documentation "ambient scribes"
Ambient-scribe risk arises when a tool listening to a clinical conversation creates an inaccurate record or captures and uses speech in ways the patient did not understand.
These resources offer more detail. Each title opens the original source in a new tab.
Health-specific guidance
World Health Organization
WHO guidance on the ethics and governance of large multimodal models in health.
Use this when considering generative AI in a health or care setting.
Database of named risks
MIT AI Risk Initiative
A collection of AI risks, organized by the kind of harm and how it arises.
Use this when you need an existing taxonomy to support research or discussion.