Employees of Volgograd State University are preparing a scientific rationale and basic principles that will make it possible to regulate the use of AI in healthcare at the legislative level and eliminate the "legal vacuum" in this area. This was told to TASS by Mikhail Dzhikiya, junior researcher at the VolGU laboratory "Legal Regulation in the Context of Digitalization".
This work is intended to address key questions of the future: already now, it is necessary to clearly define who will bear legal responsibility if artificial intelligence makes a mistake or if its operation causes harm to a patient's health. An equally important task — is the formation of transparent and ethical rules of interaction in the new chain "doctor — algorithm (AI) — patient".
Today, the range of AI applications for medical purposes covers many areas: from helping diagnose diseases and supporting the choice of treatment strategy to remote monitoring of patients' conditions. In fact, AI is becoming a doctor's digital assistant, but so far without an established legal status.
According to Mikhail Dzhikiya, this work, supported by the Russian Science Foundation, is aimed at solving strategic state objectives: achieving technological sovereignty in medicine and import substitution of IT technologies.
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