Rapid AI Adoption could cause Medical Errors, Patient Harm, WHO Warns, Urging Oversight

The World Health Organization issued a warning on Tuesday, stating that if caution is not taken ,the "meteoric"  expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in healthcare could endanger patient safety.       Device developers and others are disregarding the caution that would typically be applied to new technologies because of the excitement that rapidly expanding platforms like ChatGPT, Bard, Bert, and   others are generating over the potential to improve patient health, the organization said in a statement.    The WHO cautioned that the rapid adoption of unproven systems "could result in errors by health-care professionals, harm to patients, and a decline in trust in AI, undermining (or delaying) the potential long- term benefits and uses of such technologies around the world." Many of the artificial intelligence (AI)   systems used in healthcare.