“Deepfake doctors” present a threat to patient trust, medicine’s most valuable currency, and regulations must be implemented to protect public health, according to an expert.
At its Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates in November, the AMA adopted a policy to expand AI training across the medical education continuum and approved a resolution to create safeguards to protect both physicians and patients from deepfake technology “in the face of what supporters say is a ‘regulatory void,’” according to an AMA press release.
Deepfake impersonators of physicians boast millions of views on social