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The Standing Order
On policy, implementation, safety and education in clinical AI. Published here, and here first.
A standing order is an instruction that, once written, holds until someone changes it. It does not have to be reissued, and it does not depend on anyone remembering to give it again.
These appear on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Each one takes a single object: a rule, a bill, a regulation, a trial, a number. It says what the object actually contains, what only a person who read it would know, and what follows for the institutions that have to act on it. Each ends where the evidence ends.
One rule governs all of them: nothing is written about a source that has not been read in full. An abstract can select a subject. It cannot produce a sentence.
This is the third of three registers. The essays arrive each Friday by email. Kidney Love is the interior work. The Standing Order is the institutional one, and it lives only here.
The record
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Who answers when clinical AI causes harm? AB 2575 and the one defence it removes
AB 2575 removes one defence: that the clinician’s failure to override the output broke the chain of responsibility.
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10 studies: what the npj Digital Medicine meta-analysis of human-LLM collaboration can and cannot carry
The pooled gain of 4.88 points rests on 2 of the 10 studies. The prediction interval runs from minus 31.65 to plus 41.42, and it answers a different…
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Carter’s survey of 1,189 nurses: 1 in 5 who saw an AI safety problem had nowhere to report it
Where a reporting channel existed, nurses used it 86.2% of the time. Fear of consequences predicted nothing. This is not a culture problem but rather an absence of…
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Three cardiovascular AI moves in 8 days: ADVOCATE, AB 1979’s Chapter 25.5, and the FDA’s 3 sites
Where a rule is written decides who enforces it: AB 1979 puts clinical AI in the Business and Professions Code.
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