Giving Compass' Take:

• Sharona Hoffman at The Conversation discusses the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and how it's predictive data capability raises significant ethical concerns.

• How can technology help achieve sustainability? How are companies responsibly using AI for social impact? 

• Here's how artificial intelligence could benefit the future of education. 

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. Several of these are concerns about privacy, discrimination, psychological harm and the physician-patient relationship. In a forthcoming article, I argue that policymakers should establish a number of safeguards around AI, much as they did when genetic testing became commonplace.

Read the full article about AI in medicine by Sharona Hoffman at The Conversation.