375 - Confidentiality and Data Privacy in the Age of AI

This is the ten domains of the critical thinking matrix, the questions we ask when we're choosing to use a tool, and they are, one, intended purpose and regulatory status.

Two, confidentiality and data privacy, which we're gonna be delving into today.

Three, informed consent.

Four, therapeutic relationship and depersonalization.

Five, bias and discrimination.

Six, professional accountability and responsibility.

Seven, technical readability and validity.

And then eight, client autonomy.

Nine, regulatory and ethical alignment.

And then ten, implementation, monitoring, and reviewing.

And if that sounds a little bit confusing, don't worry.

We're gonna walk you through each one of them, uh, step by step.

And I just wanna, um, correct number seven.

I said, uh, technical readability and validity, and it's not.

It's technical reliability [laughs] and, and responsibility.

But there they are.

Those are the ten.

We're not gonna do number one, which is intended purpose and regulatory status, and the reason for that is we covered it in a recent podcast episode.

Basically, it's, it, it's looking at a tool and going, "Is this a, um, a, a com- a mental health tool that is designed specifically? Is it an LLM, or is it a, a generic, uh, uh, AI tool that is being offered on the int- uh, on the internet?" And we have delved into that one quite deep already in an episode.

But today, Rory, I'm gonna hand over to you to walk us through when we're talking about AI, confidentiality and data privacy, what do we need to know?