Artificial Intelligence Use and Verification Gap Among Healthcare Workers in Pakistan
A new study conducted among healthcare personnel and students in Pakistan revealed that artificial intelligence usage is as high as 99.7%, but there are severe deficiencies in verifying the outputs.
A comprehensive study carried out in Pakistan showed that medical professionals and students intensively use artificial intelligence tools, but a significant portion of them do not verify the obtained content and are unaware of potential errors.
Artificial Intelligence Adoption Rates
A cross-sectional study conducted in Pakistan in May 2026 with the participation of medical students, residents, physicians, and academicians revealed that artificial intelligence usage is at a nearly universal level of 99.7%.
While it was determined that 60.3% of the participants use artificial intelligence tools daily, Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity were among the most preferred applications.
Verification Deficiencies
Despite high adoption rates, 59.2% of the participants stated that they generally do not verify artificial intelligence outputs prior to use.
The findings drawn attention to the critical mismatch between the prevalence of artificial intelligence use in the medical field and the checking of the reliability of the outputs.
Artificial Intelligence Hallucinations
While 40.2% of the participants stated that they had never heard before that artificial intelligence can generate fabricated references, 36.5% reported that they assumed artificial intelligence sources that look convincing were real.
Furthermore, it was understood that even after discovering a fabricated reference, 54.2% of the participants would continue to use the remaining artificial intelligence content.
Impact of Education and Roles
It was observed that formal research training has a strong relationship with the habit of transparently sharing artificial intelligence use, and this rate was higher among those who received training.
It was determined that the tendency not to verify was highest among medical students, while the state of being unaware of artificial intelligence fabrications was highest among physicians.