Use of AI in medicine raises ethical, legal issues: NTU medical school dean

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These ethical and legal issues include how to ensure patients' personal data is used in a way that respects their privacy, and who should bear responsibility for mishaps or mistreatment due to use of AI-enabled tools.

these tools can tell if a growth is a malignant or benign lesion, predict the prognosis, and factors such as whether or not the patient is likely to respond to chemotherapy or other treatments. "Artificial intelligence can help us to improve efficiency and allocation of resources because they can predict the major burdens of healthcare and the outcome of individuals who have cancer, diabetes or other chronic illnesses

there is still a lot of scepticism among patients about whether AI and machines can or should make life-and-death decisions...Without a biological explanation, and without understanding of the underlying rationale of these decisions, trust could be a problem

our healthcare decisions and our surgery, we may also be moving... from a fully doctor-driven treatment, like surgeons operating on a tumour, to a fully robot-driven decision and a robot doing surgery. There will be a lot of discussion about how to apportion the responsibility

Qn: To what extent is artificial intelligence replacing the role of humans? (Cam. 2019)