Choose your role and situation to find questions for a real conversation.
Ask
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.
You should not need a degree to ask what is sitting in the exam room with you.
For I am a patient, or I care for someone who is
A way to begin
Who was asked, and who was only informed?
What tools are in use around them — monitoring, notes, companions, cameras?
What can we refuse, and what is bundled into 'how we work here'?
How will we know if it works worse because of age, language, or skin?
Who do we call when something in the record is not true?
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.
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.
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.
A law with high-risk lists
European Union
An external overview of the EU AI Act and its approach to different uses of AI.
Use this for orientation, and consult the original legal text to establish requirements.