Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Medical Ethics and the Machine Revolution

While this theme may be premature, the concern of teaching ethics and valuing human life is a relevant question for machine learning, especially in the realm of healthcare. Creating "laws" or "rules" for ethics in artificial intelligence as Elon Musk calls for is difficult in that ethical bounds are difficult to teach machines. Many companies have done extensive work in training systems that will be working with patients to learn what words mean and common patterns within patient care. When a patient asks about their symptoms they get clinically relevant information paired with their symptoms even if that patient uses non-medical language in describing their chief complaint.