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Addressing this challenge, we explored the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate documentation tasks and improve efficiency in psychiatric practice.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Six simulated psychiatric interviews were transcribed and summarized using an AI model and compared to a gold standard, together with reports written by humans. Reports were decomposed into binary items using a predefined codebook covering patient information, current complaints, psychiatric history, medical history, medication, substance use, social history, family history, vegetative symptoms, psychopathology, and preliminary diagnoses. Transcription accuracy, performance, and inter-rater reliability were evaluated.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n The AI achieved a high transcription accuracy with a mean word error rate of 9.44% and a Levenshtein score of 0.996, aligning with current voice-to-text transcription standards. Inter-rater reliability was high overall. The mean Cohen\u2019s \u03ba was 0.80 (SD = 0.33), the mean percent agreement was 0.96 (SD = 0.07), and the mean Gwet\u2019s AC1 was 0.93 (SD = 0.12). Across all categories, human reports showed substantially higher agreement with the gold standard than AI reports. The mean accuracy was 0.94 (SD = 0.01) for human reports and 0.78 (SD = 0.08) for AI reports, t(5) = 6.33, p = .003. The mean F1 scores were also higher for human reports (M = 0.89, SD = 0.02) than for AI reports (M = 0.55, SD = 0.13), t(5) = 7.38, p = .001. Occasionally, AI reports provided more detailed contextual information than human reports. However, AI reports also introduced clinically relevant inaccuracies and struggled in complex domains such as psychopathology.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n While our findings suggest promising prospects for AI-driven documentation in psychiatry, further development is essential to enhance the model\u2019s ability to comprehensively assess and document psychopathological features. Importantly, some AI-generated inaccuracies were clinically significant, underscoring the necessity of a final clinical review by a qualified professional. These findings are limited by the very small number of highly controlled simulated interviews. Larger studies with real patients, diverse clinicians, and routine clinical workflows will be required. 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