Key Recommendations for Safe and Effective Medical AI Implementation
A new set of recommendations published in The Lancet Digital Health and NEJM AI aims to help improve the way datasets are used to build Artificial intelligence (AI) health technologies and reduce the risk of potential AI bias.
An international initiative called ‘STANDING Together (STANdards for data Diversity, INclusivity and Generalisability)’ has published recommendations as part of a research study involving more than 350 experts from 58 countries. These recommendations aim to ensure that medical AI can be safe and effective for everyone. They cover many factors which can contribute to AI bias, including:
• Encouraging medical AI to be developed using appropriate healthcare datasets that properly represent everyone in society, including minoritised and underserved groups;
• Helping anyone who publishes healthcare datasets to identify any biases or limitations in the data;
• Enabling those developing medical AI technologies to assess whether a dataset is suitable for their purposes;
• Defining how AI technologies should be tested to identify if they are biased, and so work less well in certain people.
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