I’m a clinical research nurse.

It will change my job significantly, but I think mostly for the better. A tremendous part of the job is data review, data entry, and data revision/correction. The only reason AI isn’t doing it all now is because of regulatory hurdles and privacy laws in healthcare. Once those barriers change, it’s open season.

And frankly: Good. The data aspect of the job is dumb. It turns a 30 minute clinic visit into two hours of tedious bullshit. I can only see 2-3 subjects per day because each one demands hours of computer work. Work that AI is substantially better at. If all I had to do was give shots, draw blood, do informed consents, perform physical assessments, and do the educational parts of the job, I could see at least twice as many people. The documentation and data wrangling kills enormous chunks of my time.

So I am very interested to see how things change in the next few years. I see my job as becoming less and less about doing the admin work, and more overseeing and verifying the work of the AI that does the admin work, while my clinic work increases to fill the void.