Medical Xpress October 10, 2024
In a commentary published in The American Journal of Bioethics, Anthony P. Weiss, MD, MBA, MSc, Chief Medical Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), argues that the current approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) applications used in medicine is inadequate. Instead, Weiss proposes a model that mirrors the supervisory relationship between trainees and attending physicians.
Weiss focuses on the growing use of Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems (MAMLS), systems that continually learn and change, and the regulatory conundrum they present. Currently, MAMLS are thought of as something akin to medical devices, which must gain FDA approval before being used in the...