Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Raises Legal and Ethical Concerns

The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers' ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For example, by using machine learning, scientists are working to develop algorithms that will help them make decisions about cancer treatment. They hope that computers will be able to analyze radiological images and discern which cancerous tumors will respond well to chemotherapy and which will not. But AI in medicine also raises significant legal and ethical challenges.