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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9699338" data-attributes="member: 177">Thank you for a lead in for another direction to consider...Does anyone here think that devices used in medical practice should be thrown out into the market with no testing as to their efficacy or safety?  Like, if someone built a new heart-lung machine to use during heart transplants, you'd want that thoroughly tested before it got used on you, right?Now, your lawyer handles your life, liberty, and financial and legal well-being.  If they are using an untested tool, shouldn't that give you pause?There is no such thing as a life with zero risk.  However, in areas of particularly significant consequences, we typically do what we can to reduce and manage that risk.  We build purpose-made tools, and we test the heck out of them.  We keep redesigning and refining until the risks come down to something like a manageable level, the remaining risks are known, and can be communicated and managed.  And, the seller accepts some liability if the tool causes harm.That hasn't happened with AI tools.  They throw ChatGPT out there, and folks use it for whatever they darned well feel like, and risk to thrid parties be darned, hey what?</blockquote>