Is it Possible to Ethically Harness AI in Healthcare?
From AWS recently launching HealthScribe to ongoing coverage of the benefits and dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it makes us wonder if it is possible to ethically harness AI in healthcare. Thankfully, it is a topic that many – from big tech to global organizations and politicians – are actively addressing these days.
Last week, Duke Health and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership to support AI applications in medicine, with a focus on building out infrastructure such as cloud-based data platforms. A core part of this partnership will focus on the responsible and ethical use of AI in healthcare, as highlighted in this recent Healthcare IT News
In addition, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AI safety and research company Anthropic announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, which aims to ensure the safe and responsible development of large-scale machine learning models that are capable of surpassing the capabilities of current AI models.
In June, Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched the Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health), which also aims to tackle safety and ethical issues around the use of AI in healthcare.
Also, in May, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for caution to be exercised in using AI-generated large language model tools (LLMs) to protect and promote human well-being, human safety, and autonomy, and preserve public health.
And outside of the healthcare arena, many are also addressing the larger-scale impact of AI.
For example, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI recently signed onto a new set of voluntary commitments around AI safety, cybersecurity, and public trust.
Mirroring the Biden Administration’s focus on AI safety, these new commitments include developing pre-release security testing for AI models and forming insider threat safeguards and cybersecurity investments focused on unreleased and proprietary model weights.
Two leading Congressional AI proponents are also working to boost the federal government’s ability to foster AI innovation through increased funding and competition while also reducing major risks associated with the technology.
Finally, earlier this summer, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a plan to develop comprehensive legislation in Congress to regulate and advance the development of artificial intelligence in the U.S.
AI has the ability to truly transform healthcare delivery when used safely and ethically. When it comes to harnessing AI ethically in healthcare, fortunately, there are many players involved in this critical discussion.
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