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Warwick Medical School

Background Material

  1. Simple introduction to AI
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi
  1. What AI can achieve in health care

Eric Topol introduces the Health Education England ‘Topol review’: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi

The full review can be seen here: https://topol.hee.nhs.uk/

Erica Topol High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0300-7

Zandi D, Reis A, Vayena E, Goodman K. New ethical challenges of digital technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence in public health: a call for papers. Bull World Health Organ. 2019;97(1):2. https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/97/1/18-227686/en/

  1. General ethical principles for AI

European Commission Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ethics-guidelines-trustworthy-ai 

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) / National Commission on Informatics and Liberty How can humans keep the upper hand: the ethical matters raised by algorithms and artificial intelligence.
https://www.cnil.fr/sites/default/files/atoms/files/cnil_rapport_ai_gb_web.pdf

Government of Canada Responsible use of AI
https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/modern-emerging-technologies/responsible-use-ai.html#toc1

Montréal Declaration of Responsible AI
https://www.montrealdeclaration-responsibleai.com/the-declaration

  1. Health specific ethical guidance

National Health Service Code of conduct for data driven health and care technology:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-conduct-for-data-driven-health-and-care-technology/initial-code-of-conduct-for-data-driven-health-and-care-technology

RANZCR Ethical principles for artificial intelligence in medicine:
https://www.ranzcr.com/whats-on/news-media/340-media-release-ethical-principles-for-ai-in-medicine

  1. Potential research agenda model for ethics

Nuffield Foundation Ethical and societal implications of algorithms, data and artificial intelligence: a roadmap for research
https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/Ethical-and-Societal-Implications-of-Data-and-AI-report-Nuffield-Foundat.pdf

  1. Future doctors?

Health Education England is currently consulting on Future Doctors.

One aim for the workshop is to submit a response to this document during the meeting (deadline is 26th September)

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/HEE%20Future%20Doctor%20-%20Call%20for%20Evidence_0.pdf The statement on the role of doctors, produced in 2014: https://www.medschools.ac.uk/media/1922/role-of-the-doctor-consensus-statement.pdf