ICT&health February 21, 2025
Scientists from the University of Oxford, together with colleagues from academia, industry and policy organisations from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, investigated the potential of AI as a tool to better prepare the world in the event of the next pandemic. In particular, the research focused on safety, accountability and ethics in the deployment and use of AI in infectious disease research.
In their study, the scientists and academics call for collaboration and transparency, both in terms of datasets and AI models. Currently, medical AI applications focus mainly on the care of individual patients, improving, for example, clinical diagnostics, precision medicine or supporting clinical treatment decisions. The study, published in Nature, describes how advances in AI can accelerate...