(This content was created with the help of AI.) Mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente staged a one-day strike in California on Wednesday, protesting Kaiser Permanente’s growing use of artificial intelligence tools and warning of risks to patient safety and their own jobs.
The walkout involved up to 2,400 psychologists, social workers, and other therapists, with nurses and other unionized hospital staff joining picket lines across the Bay Area, Central Valley, and Sacramento, KQED reports.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers said Kaiser has shifted initial mental health screening away from licensed clinicians to phone operators and an online questionnaire powered by AI, which they argue can miss patients at high risk of self-harm or in crisis…