The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this week, a consensus draft document dealing with the ethics of AI in medical imaging was posted on the ACR website. I would like to congratulate the authors, listed with their affiliations below, on a collaborative effort to address this important topic. This was a multi-society effort including the American College of Radiology (ACR), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), European Society of Radiology (ESR), Radiological Society of North American (RSNA), Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII). Importantly, the group included trainees, patients and other stakeholders such as an ethicist from MIT. But despite the wide ranging backgrounds and expert input that created this draft, the writing group and our Societies' leaders are very clear that this is just that: a draft.