Health experts ‘must raise alarm on AI threats’


Concern about the direction of AI research is prompting alarm even among those at the centre of the field. — Reuters

PARIS: Health professionals must warn the world about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), a group of academics wrote on May 10, as clamours grow for work on the technology to be halted.

The academics wrote in the BMJ Global Health journal that time was running out to take action because corporations, the military and governments were working so fast to develop AI tools.

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