DeepMind wants its healthcare AI to charge by results -- but first it needs your data

Mark your Google calendars because from today'Don't be evil' rides again, via the DeepMind AI division of the Alphabet ad giant, as a Hippocratic assurance to'Do no harm'. It's no small irony that DeepMind's new mantra for its healthcare push, voiced by co-founder Mustafa Suleyman at an outreach event today for patients to hear what the Google-owned company wants to build with U.K. National Health Service data, is uncomfortably close to its old one -- i.e. the one that embarrassingly fell out of favor. Suleyman cited the Hippocratic oath when discussing his takeaways from patient feedback on the company's plans. "[Do no harm] has to be a mantra we repeat and becomes an inherent part of our process," he said towards the end of the three hour discussion session which was live streamed on YouTube (with a call for comments via a #DMHpatients Twitter hashtag). "And [do no harm] should be the first measure of success before any deployment or before we attempt to demonstrate any utility and patient benefit," he added.