Employees of Volgograd State University are preparing a scientific justification and basic principles that will allow regulating the use of AI in healthcare at the legislative level and eliminating the "legal vacuum" in this area. This was reported to TASS by Mikhail Dzhikiya, a junior researcher at the laboratory "Legal Regulation in the Context of Digitalization" at VolSU.
This work is designed to address key issues of the future: it is already necessary to clearly define who will be legally responsible if artificial intelligence makes a mistake or its work harms the patient's health. An equally important task is the formation of transparent and ethical rules of interaction in the new связке "doctor — algorithm (AI) — patient."
Today, the scope of AI application for medical purposes covers many areas: from helping in the diagnosis of diseases and supporting the choice of treatment tactics to remote monitoring of patients' condition. In fact, AI is becoming a digital assistant to the doctor, but without a legally закрепленного status.
According to Mikhail Dzhikiya, this work, supported by the Russian Science Foundation, is aimed at solving strategic state tasks: achieving technological sovereignty in medicine and import substitution of IT technologies.
