It was no surprise when the Biden administration recently outlined in a broad executive order the challenges AI poses and what is needed to address them, including within health care. AI has enormous potential to shape health care’s future, but its use comes with serious ethical responsibilities.
Those of us who work in health technology need to build on the administration’s initiative and see to it that AI benefits all patients while ensuring more accurate diagnoses.
Just as newly minted physicians swear by the Hippocratic oath to uphold specific ethical standards, those behind AI technologies in health care hold themselves responsible for their work. Human health and all procedures required to maintain it, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, demand the highest degree of trust and integrity.
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