Exaggerated Promises: The Fallacy of AI in Medicine

Recent incidents highlight the potential risks and pitfalls of overstating AI capabilities within the healthcare sector. These instances underscore the importance of responsible AI, with a focus on harm prevention, guardrails for AI, and safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.617, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.5 — similarity 0.607, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 3.2 — similarity 0.587, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/123

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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