Artificial intelligence tech has infiltrated every industry, and health care is no exception. We now have Together by Renee, an app that tracks your medical history, aims to gauge your blood pressure with a selfie, and detect depression or anxiety symptoms by the sound of your voice. DrugGPT, developed at Oxford University, is a tool designed to help doctors prescribe medications and keep patients informed about what they’re taking. You can download Humanity, a generative AI “health coach” that promises to “reduce biological age,” and Google is working on a machine-learning model that will potentially diagnose a patient based on the sound of their cough.
But the potential consequences of these applications are somewhat different than what may happen when you use AI to create a song. To put it in the starkest terms: lives are at risk. And experts in the fields of…
