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Guidance on Healthcare AI Ethics

January 26 , 2024 175 days 330 0
  • The WHO issues guidelines on ethics and governance of AI for health, specifically multimodal AI like ChatGPT.
  • These guidelines address the ethical quandaries surrounding the rapid advancement of generative AI technology, particularly in its applications within the healthcare domain.
  • The new WHO guidance outlines five broad applications of large multimodal models (LMMs) for health:
    • Diagnosis and clinical care, such as responding to patients’ written queries
    • Patient-guided use, such as for investigating symptoms and treatment
    • Clerical and administrative tasks, such as documenting and summarising patient visits within electronic health records
    • Medical and nursing education, including providing trainees with simulated patient encounters
    • Scientific research and drug development, including to identify new compounds.

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