RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence
JF BMJ Global Health
JO BMJ Global Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e010435
DO 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010435
VO 8
IS 5
A1 Frederik Federspiel
A1 Ruth Mitchell
A1 Asha Asokan
A1 Carlos Umana
A1 David McCoy
YR 2023
UL http://gh.bmj.com/content/8/5/e010435.abstract
AB While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions in healthcare, it also poses a number of threats to human health and well-being via social, political, economic and security-related determinants of health. We describe three such main ways misused narrow AI serves as a threat to human health: through increasing opportunities for control and manipulation of people; enhancing and dehumanising lethal weapon capacity and by rendering human labour increasingly obsolescent. We then examine self-improving ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) and how this could pose an existential threat to humanity itself. Finally, we discuss the critical need for effective regulation, including the prohibition of certain types and applications of AI, and echo calls for a moratorium on the development of self-improving AGI. We ask the medical and public health community to engage in evidence-based advocacy for safe AI, rooted in the precautionary principle.There are no data in this work.