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.