The Challenges for Regulating Medical Use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the practice of healthcare presents regulators with the challenge of reviewing novel uses of this technology. A viewpoint article from Professor Effy Vayena.
The potential of AI in medicine has further accelerated in recent months, as large language models (LLMs) have grown increasingly capable and broadly available to the public. Professor Effy Vayena of the ETH Institute of Translational Medicine and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab discusses emerging ethical and legal challenges in this area, in this viewpoint piece in the Journal of the American Medicine Association. Professor Vayena and co-authors identify questions related to patient data privacy, intellectual property rights, and cybersecurity risks, which regulators must rapidly address, in order for AI to yield the greatest benefit to both patients and healthcare providers.
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