Why prioritising AI ethics can inspire trust & confidence?

There’s no doubt Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the way we work in healthcare. The opportunities to speed up patient diagnosis and treatment planning, to ease the routine burden on radiologists and to improve clinical confidence are without question. Precision Health is on the horizon. Yet, as with every technological revolution, there comes an element of fear and uncertainty. 

Trust and transparency at this and every stage of AI’s march into mainstream healthcare application is vital. We need to be ready to answer questions to alleviate doubt. From where has the data come to build AI algorithms? Is the data diverse enough to represent all patient populations?

Safety and regulation are at the forefront of healthcare; they need to be. And ethics and conduct are not new - the Hippocratic oath was written nearly 2500 years ago and to this day steers the moral principles of our physicians. The opportunities are too great and the risks are too real for us to not get AI right, which is why GE Healthcare has set out its guiding principles of AI.