Healthcare is supposedly the one part of the economy where jobs were plentiful and safe from AI. But our guest says that AI is transforming healthcare work, too. Reporter Varsha Bansal talks to Katie Wells, a senior fellow at AI Now Institute, about gig nursing apps — think Uber or Hinge for nursing. It’s a world where nurses are gig workers who don’t know where or when they’ll be clocking in next week, where medical assistants bid against each other to work a shift – and in some cases the lowest bid wins.

Watch the interview here.

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