Until Regulations are in place, BMJ Global Health article, requests a halt to development of self-improving artificial general intelligence.
Artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity, and harm the heath of millions, said doctors and public health experts. Until it is regulated, cause for a halt to the development of artificial general intelligence.
AI has a positive future in healthcare, by potentially enhancing diagnosis of diseases, acquiring better methods to treat patients, reaching out an extending care to more people.
According to health professionals from the UK, US, Australia, Costa Rica and Malaysia, writing in the journal BMJ Global Health, warns that AI has the potential to produce negative health impact.
They say that there is a potential for AI errors to cause patients as adversely, data security and may worsen social and health inequalities. One example of AI negatively affecting the health system is, the use of AI-driven pulse oximeter, that overestimated blood oxygen levels for patients with darker skin, undertreating the patient for their hypoxia. They informed.
A warning of a wider, global threat from artificial intelligence to human health, and even human existence.
AI effects the social determinants of health by the control and manipulation, use of lethal autonomous weapons and mental health affected by mass unemployment. This technology may very well displace a large number of workers especially in the health sector.
These factors combined with the ability to distort or misrepresent reality with deep fakes, will deeply impact public health.
It is estimated that tens to hundreds of millions over the coming decades may lose their jobs due to world wide deployment of AI technology.
Furthermore, response psychologically and emotionally by the society, knowing work is unavailable or unnecessary is still unknown.
Creating machines that are more intelligent and powerful than ourselves, whether deliberately or not, could harm or subjugate humans, is real and is to be strongly considered.
Experts have warned to avoid harm, effective regulations of the development and use of Artificial Intelligence is required. Until this is in place the moratorium on the development of self-improving artificial general intelligence should be adapted.
Government’s forthcoming online safety bill to be reconstructed, to fight against health misinformation, has been called by a coalition of health experts, independent factcheckers and medical charities.
Internet companies have to be given clear strict policies identify the harmful health misinformation that exists in their platform, and a system to deal with it, the group wrote in an open letter to Chloe Smith, the secretary of state for science, innovations and technology.
