Ethical barriers to artificial intelligence in the national health service, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Claire Louise Thompson; Heather May Morgan

doi:10.2471/BLT.19.237230

Ethical barriers to artificial intelligence in the national health service, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Claire Louise Thompson
, Heather May Morgan^* (Corresponding Author)

^*Corresponding author for this work

Applied Health Sciences

University of Aberdeen

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence – the ability of systems to replicate human behaviour in an intelligent manner – shows promise in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s National Health Service (NHS), which provides free-at-the-point-of-service health care via a national insurance scheme (Fig. 1). Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have created sophisticated software programs that could revolutionize the NHS. Breakthroughs in machine learning, more notably deep learning (Box 1), have led to algorithms capable of performing diagnostic skills equivalent to those of doctors, automating administrative tasks and assisting in complex treatment management.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	293-295
Number of pages	3
Journal	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Volume	98
Issue number	4
Early online date	28 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.237230
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020

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Ethical barriers to artificial intelligence in the national health service, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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