Искусственный интеллект и доверие в здравоохранении (на английском языке)
Факультет государственного управления

This course suggests approaches to understanding the usage and implementation of the artificial intelligence solutions within health care settings and medicine with the focus on the most important issue of trust. The issue of trust in health-related field is of extreme importance for taking medical decisions, evaluating care and ensuring further interaction. Of particular interest in this respect if the AI-driven social robots that make visible societal issues, modifications and ethics. The practice of medicine has evolved as well as the torrent of the data, thus providing the opportunities to modify the current approaches in various dimensions, such as healthcare and medicine management, clinical practice and patients’ experiences. The latter are based on the trust to the doctor, healthcare system in general as well as the technology of artificial intelligence that is an umbrella term for various solutions. Globally, strategy on digital health development relies greatly on new technologies implementation in reducing costs, preserving the quality of care and overcoming inequalities, ensuring better health and patient outcomes. At the same time people are concerned about technologies that might take their jobs. Artificial intelligence proves to be one of the most promising domains worldwide. However, the hype around the concept provided the avalanche of potential technical solutions, however, without proper attention to the stakeholder analysis, ethics and bioethics involved. Needless to say, AI has turned and has already outlined its development as a social phenomenon with wide social, cultural, economic and political conditions by which it is shaped.

We are going to have a look at the major concepts of AI in relation to health care settings, starting from discussing dreams and past expectations that have certain influence on our present. We will explore the history of the field to understand its dynamics and modern applications. We will focus on the people’s understanding of the technologies, to find out the ways of communications that arises certain ethical issues. We will analyze the potential benefits of AI technologies and pay attention to the unintended consequences. We will also focus on the requirements to the AI technologies in healthcare including the explainability of the technology, will try to understand what can be understood.