Bill would bar AI from supplanting clinicians' judgment in patient care
AB 19 79 would require licensed health professionals to retain final clinical judgment when AI tools inform care and expand privacy protections for medical records used by consumer chatbots; nurses and AI accountability researchers urged safeguards while hospitals and industry noted definitional concerns.
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Assemblymember Banta presented AB 19 79 as a three‑part bill: protect licensed clinicians' ability to exercise professional judgment when clinical decision support (CDS) systems inform care; prohibit AI tools from guiding unlicensed people to perform licensed clinical functions; and extend confidentiality protections to medical records accessed by consumer‑facing health chatbots. Banta said the bill is intended to prevent the substitution of AI for clinicians at a time when workforce pressures could create incentives to rely on automation.
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