TY - CHAP
T1 - The Autonomous AI Physician
T2 - Medical Ethics and Legal Liability
AU - Duffourc, Mindy
AU - Giovanniello, Dominick S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12/27
Y1 - 2023/12/27
N2 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently capable of autonomously performing acts that constitute medical practice, including diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic decision making, and image analysis, but should AI be considered a medical practitioner? Complicating this question is that fact that the ethical, regulatory, and legal regimes that govern medical practice and medical malpractice are not designed for nonhuman doctors. This chapter first suggests ethical parameters for the Autonomous AI Physician’s practice of medicine, focusing on the field of pathology. Second, we identify ethical and legal issues that arise from the Autonomous AI Physician’s practice of medicine, including safety, reliability, transparency, fairness, and accountability. Third, we discuss the potential application of various existing legal and regulatory regimes to govern the Autonomous AI Physician. Finally, we conclude that all stakeholders in the development and use of the Autonomous AI Physician have an obligation to ensure that AI is implemented in a safe and responsible way.
AB - Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently capable of autonomously performing acts that constitute medical practice, including diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic decision making, and image analysis, but should AI be considered a medical practitioner? Complicating this question is that fact that the ethical, regulatory, and legal regimes that govern medical practice and medical malpractice are not designed for nonhuman doctors. This chapter first suggests ethical parameters for the Autonomous AI Physician’s practice of medicine, focusing on the field of pathology. Second, we identify ethical and legal issues that arise from the Autonomous AI Physician’s practice of medicine, including safety, reliability, transparency, fairness, and accountability. Third, we discuss the potential application of various existing legal and regulatory regimes to govern the Autonomous AI Physician. Finally, we conclude that all stakeholders in the development and use of the Autonomous AI Physician have an obligation to ensure that AI is implemented in a safe and responsible way.
KW - Artificial intelligence in healthcare
KW - Autonomous artificial intelligence
KW - Medical liability for artificial intelligence
KW - Regulating artificial intelligence
UR - https://link.springer.com/book/9783031412639
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-41264-6_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-41264-6_11
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031412660
T3 - Law, Governance and Technology Series
SP - 207
EP - 228
BT - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
A2 - Sousa Antunes, Henrique
A2 - Miguel Freitas, Pedro
A2 - L. Oliveira, Arlindo
A2 - Martins Pereira, Clara
A2 - Vaz de Sequeira, Elsa
A2 - Barreto Xavier, Luís
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Cham
ER -