Concerns and Benefits as AI Enters UK Social Care
• Concerns that unregulated AI chatbots are being used to create social care plans in the UK, risking patient confidentiality and providing faulty information • Potential benefits exist too - AI could help create care plans more efficiently and frequently • AI tech like facial recognition and sensors already assist in monitoring vulnerable patients • New assistive AI tools in development to help dementia patients and informal carers • Social care sector worried about inadvertently breaking rules by using unregulated AI, guidance being developed