Digital Health March 24, 2025
- Dr Jessica Morley said that the NHS should focus “play to AI’s strengths” and focus on population goals
- She added that using AI to empower patients is “problematic”
- Morley was speaking at Rewired 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham
The NHS is limiting the effectiveness of AI by focusing on how the technology can improve individuals’ health, according to Dr Jessica Morley, postdoctoral researcher at Yale University’s Digital Ethics Center.
During her ‘Spotlight on AI session’ which took place at Rewired on 19 March 2025, Morley called for a “different conversation about AI”.
AI policy goals in healthcare tend to be about creating more “targeted treatments” and “empowering people to take better care of their health”, which is...