Use of AI in health care brings risk of 'serious errors,' WHO says


The use of AI in health care is expected to increase rapidly in the coming years, but the World Health Organization sees the risk of patients being given wrong information. — Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa

GENEVA: Research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) is already better than humans at picking donor organs for transplants and also better at answering health-related questions from patients.

And yet experts at the World Health Organization are saying that introducing AI into health care procedures brings the risk of "completely incorrect" information.

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