Haggai Matar: Israeli Journalist on Netanyahu's new military occupation plan

Israel's expanding its military occupation of Gaza - forcing more than a million Palestinians out of Gaza City. 

Israel's security cabinet's approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan - in a nine hour meeting today.

It involves moving Palestinians out of the main population centres - and into compounds in southern Gaza. 

Israeli journalist Haggai Matar told Heather du-Plessis Allan that Israel already controls over 85 percent of Gaza - and forbids Palestinians from going into it.  

He says it's basically pushing Palestinians into smaller areas of land - mostly areas that have been uninhabited and are very difficult to sustain life on. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now GPS are taking to AI for their consultations like
ducks to water. A survey of almost two hundred GPS
by Otago University has found that forty percent of them
were recording their consultations and getting AI to write everything
down for them. Professor Angela Balentine was the lead researcher
who did this survey and surveying with us. Now, Hey, Angela, hi,

(00:21):
thanks for having me. It's really smart that they're doing this.
You could see the time saving in it, but are
there any fish shocks? Like do they need to tell
you that they're doing this?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, so that does look like this time saving. There's
a couple of fishocks. One is that there are still
errors in the clinical notes. So we found that GPS
said that maybe there were hallucinations so content that hadn't
really been said, or the notes had missed really critical findings,
so they still need to be read really carefully by
the clinician. And in terms of consent, yes, we found

(00:50):
that fifty nine percent of GPs' we're asking patients for consent,
but that means a significant minority isn't, and we really
like to see that change. We think patients should know
and they should get to have a.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Say, well, because only if only to stop you saying
dumb things, right, because like you might go in like
I quite like having a laugh with the GPS sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
In absolutely no, no, you should still do that, one
hundred percent, you should still.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Do that a bomb job, do you know what I mean?
And it's just good job, great, But I don't want
that much body AI.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know, but I think that would be that would
be really so sad. One of the really nice things
actually in the study is that one of the GPS said,
it made my job fun again. And I work with
a lot of GPS and I know how you know,
overburdened they are, so please tell the jokes. That also
makes the GP's job fun again. So yeah. So I
mean in terms of it recording it, it will record it,

(01:39):
create the transcript. That transcript will typically be deleted, say
in seven days, So in terms of what ends up
in your clinical notes, hopefully the AI will just ignore
that and or the doctor will delete anything that's not necessary.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Angela, do you think people are still weird about AI
because they don't necessarily understand it. They might just freak
out and say, no, you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't think they're weird about AI. I think it's
good to be skeptical about AI. I don't like the
narrative of like, oh, my gosh, AI is going to
solve all of our problems in the health system. I mean,
there's just there's been that narrative around like oh, we've
got dishwashers and now we've got GPS on our phone
and in our phone like predicts, so we don't even
have to think about how we're going to teck someone back.
And actually the result of all of that is that

(02:18):
we're all more exhausted and more tired and disconnected, you know,
than we were fifty years ago. So you know, we
don't want to be like simplistic about it's going to
solve all the problems, and we don't want to be
simplistic about the something evil and dodgy about it either. Yeah,
we just want to keep collecting the data and really
understanding how it's influencing clinical practice.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I like your approach. Thanks very much, Angela, Professor Professor
Angela Valentine, Department of Primary Healthcare at Otaga University in Wellington.
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