MIT News January 5, 2026
New research demonstrates how AI models can be tested to ensure they don’t cause harm by revealing anonymized patient health data.
What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: “Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.”
As privacy becomes increasingly scarce in the age of data-hungry algorithms and cyberattacks, medicine is one of the few remaining domains where confidentiality remains central to practice, enabling patients to trust their...
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