At its centre will be the WHOs first Global report of AI in health and six guiding principles for its design and use:
The WG will bring together experts from physical and mental health (doctors, nurses, managers, care workers), patient groups, social scientists, industry partners, regulators such as the Royal Colleges, funders, international experts, computer scientists, legal experts, data scientists including experts in security, policy experts, procurement and government representatives. It will also seek advice from experts in social care which can directly impact health, such as housing, education, unemployment, benefits, asylum seekers and homelessness.
One of its goals is to establish an AI champion in every NHS Trust in the UK.
It became obvious during a meeting on AI and Education in the House of Commons in July 2023 that RAi UK needs to better engage with children and their educational bodies as the next generation are likely to be affected by these developments significantly more than the current one.
The WG will work closely with Dr Caitlin Bentley to co-design creative skills projects which would go beyond learning the technical skills of AI. Examples would be to design webinars and online materials inspired by the Oxford Said Business School AI platform and to teach RRI to medical students through introductory, intermediate and advanced interactive lectures along with assessment tools.
The WG will create RRI prompts and practice cards likethose within the TAS-Hub. It will promote EDI activism to earn the trust of the public. Examples would be public facing events derived by combining best practices from the arts and sciences such as AI and Surgery in the Science Gallery London in addition to Public Lectures and an “AI Nation”.
The WG will also bring much needed standardisation such as the use of DECIDE-AI in the reporting of AI in healthcare whether that be in open access published articles, white papers or policy documents as below.
Vasey et al. BMJ 2022
Hani et al. Nature Medicine 2023