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What is Generative AI? What does this mean on Mayo Clinic Connect? Sep 2, 2025 | By Colleen Young, Connect Director (@colleenyoung)Comment receiving replies
Thanks.
I'm on vacation, don't have access to my PC, and working with my phone is difficult, given my disability.
For the record, I spent 15 years in software design and development.
I am a contributing author to the book "Intelligent Instruction by Computer"; I created content in many fields for organizations like Rush medical center in Chicago, University of Utah Medical School, Procter & Gamble, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, and American Airlines.
The risks are mostly from "unknown unknowns" -- and with AI, these are many.
You'll see.
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Hi Scott @scottrl
Before my accident in 2012, I was a programmer for the 1980’s until 2012, but my memory is gone. That’s 80% of my lost brain-injury, BUT I am alive ❤️ and thx of what you wrote this that😉
Greg D.
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Like you, Scott, I spent years "under the hood" working on Expert Systems, knowledge bases, coding, teaching and testing.
The biggest thing that frightens me about the "rush to AI" today is the lack of end-to-end testing of the algorithms being used, and the fact that the AI engines are allowed to modify them without human intervention or consent.
My husband just read me an AI-generated summary of mycobacteria infections (about which I know a great deal after my seven years here) and the information they were reporting is at least 10 years out of date. That particular summary contained no link back to the data. So, when out Mayo Connect members refer to AI postings on the subject, I am understandably nervous.