AI in healthcare is being built by and for the wealthiest: we need a wider perspective, warns WHO

While artificial intelligence stands to bring rapid improvements to the healthcare sector, director-general of the World Health Organisation Margaret Chan has warned that it must be for the good of everybody – not just the wealthiest countries. "What good does it do to get early diagnoses of skin or breast cancer if a country does not provide the opportunity for treatment or if the price of medicines are not affordable?" "Many developing countries don't have health data to mine. And they don't have functioning systems for registering vital causes of death stats. "Enthusiasms for smart machines reflect the perspectives of well-resourced companies and wealthy countries.