HBO's The Pitt delivers sharp, nuanced portrayal of AI in healthcare settings

The second season of HBO's The Pitt features a subplot about hospitals adopting AI-powered transcription software. The show portrays AI as genuinely useful for overwhelmed residents who can't keep up with charting, while also showing the technology's flaws and the friction it creates among physicians. The Verge calls it one of the most thoughtful depictions of AI in entertainment, avoiding both utopian and dystopian extremes to capture the messy reality of institutional AI adoption.

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