Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - The Need for Ethics
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Varoon Mathur |
TEDxUBC
• March 2018
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize the way we think about medicine and healthcare, but whom do we hold accountable when diagnoses fail or when automated procedures go awry? Drawing on experiences in global health and machine learning can help highlight the need for a sound ethical framework to be put in place to deal with emerging challenges and threats posed by AI, so that we can learn to build technology that puts patients and their health first.