News: Making an Ethical Artificial Intelligence

The future of medicine could come down to automation, with artificial intelligence increasingly being used as a substitute for human professions. But can a machine accurately diagnose and treat diseases and illnesses, while also addressing ethical, legal and social implications? For Professor Stacy Carter, the issue of ethics in artificial intelligence first came to her attention in a context one might not first think: a breast screening. "My colleague Professor Nehmat Houssami from the University of Sydney, who has worked for a long time in mammography, expressed her concern that AI might soon be used in breast screening programs. Her main worry was that people were only focusing on it as a technical problem, whether it can be done."