OPSOPS-001 — Monitoring and Alerting Inadequacies
Medical AI Assistants Risk Patient Harm Through Unsafe Exploratory Actions
4/5Sector: HealthcareGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Widely deployed AI assistants face a safe exploration problem, whereby encountering novel situations may prompt untested actions such as recommending unvalidated clinical trials. Boards must govern how AI systems handle unknown scenarios before deployment at scale in clinical settings.
Domain
Operational Management
Blindspots in monitoring, incident response, performance, scalability, integration, and business continuity.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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