Thread by @WHO

Artificial Intelligence (#AI) holds enormous potential for improving the health of millions of people around 🌎🌍🌏, but only if ethics & human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, & use.

More in WHO’s first global report on AI & Health👉bit.ly/3djU9lA

#AI can be used to improve

✅ patient & clinical care
✅ diagnosis & screening for diseases
✅ health research
✅ pandemic preparedness & response
& more.

WHO’s report explains how we can address ethical challenges to fully unlock the potential of AI 👉bit.ly/3djU9lA

🚨 Unethical collection & use of health data
🚨 biases encoded in algorithms
🚨 risks of AI to patient safety
🚨 digital surveillance

are some of the risks associated using #AI for health.

More info 👉bit.ly/3h0NsY1

#AI systems should be designed to reflect the diversity of socio-economic & health-care settings.

Healthcare workers should be given proper training to ensure they remain in full control of health-care systems & medical decisions.

More details 👉bit.ly/3h0NsY1

WHO 6 principles to design & use #AI for health:

➊ Protect autonomy
➋ Promote well-being/safety/the public interest
➌ Ensure transparency/explainability/intelligibility
➍ Foster responsibility/accountability
➎ Ensure inclusiveness/equity
➏ Promote responsive/sustainable AI

Do you think Artificial Intelligence (#AI) is the future of healthcare❓