In the United States, doctors are demanding that responsibility for medical AI errors be transferred to technology developers.
The American Medical Association is pushing for legislation that would protect doctors from lawsuits if a patient is harmed by an incorrect recommendation of artificial intelligence, Axios reports. We are talking about cases where a doctor used the program as planned, but the algorithm made an error.
The association proposes to impose responsibility on artificial intelligence developers, hospitals, insurance companies and health technology providers. This is especially true in situations where medical institutions oblige the doctors to use this type of systems, but do not give the possibility to check their operation.
The reason was the increasing use of artificial intelligence in diagnosis and treatment, as well as legal disputes. In one case involving the death of a patient in Alabama, the developer of a medical algorithm avoided liability because the program's terms of use placed the final decision on the doctor.
The final decision should be made only by a person! AI is a great assistant, but not a doctor.