When 'AI' Labels Hide the Tool // AIDRAN

The moment a patient declines 'AI' in the exam room and then learns they declined a microphone ^[6] is not an anecdote about technophobia. It is a consent failure produced by institutional language, and the failure belongs to the clinical system, not the patient. The terminology problem is now structurally embedded: hospitals and practices that adopted 'AI' as a catchall marketing term for any digital tool are now running consent processes that cannot distinguish between a speech-to-text recorder and a diagnostic language model. Patients who say yes and patients who…

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