How do we develop clinician confidence in AI?

Health Education England's Annabelle Painter and Mike Nix on how different factors influence healthcare workers' confidence in AI, and what this means for AI design and deployment. Health Education England (HEE) and the NHS AI Lab have published a collaborative report exploring the factors that influence healthcare workers' confidence in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. While the report covers AI technologies used for any task in healthcare settings, this article discusses the challenges of incorporating AI into clinical reasoning and decision making (CRDM). The key consideration is determining the appropriate level of confidence a clinician can place in AI-derived information for a case-specific clinical decision. What influences clinicians' confidence during AI-assisted CRDM?