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Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns

  • Written by Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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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...

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