Yes, AI GP services already proved to be much more superior years ago. They don't need to create a shortage in the way you describe though. Well not in the UK anyway. Here they are doing it to themselves. They stop seeing patients face to face, create a part-time working culture (which means they spend most the time just catching up), try not to work on mondays and fridays (so they have a long weekend but again means a lot of catching up mid-week) and then claim burn-out. They then leave creating a shortage and more work for the remaining GPs who will actually get burn out through lack of GPs.

Then the solution, AI, will be brought in to relieve them and they will lap it up, not realising they are signing their resignation letter for a few years down the line.