Reporting of screening and diagnostic AI rarely acknowledges ethical, legal, and social implications: a mass media frame analysis.

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2020)

We found that media reporting of screening and diagnostic AI predominantly framed the technology as a source of social progress and economic development. Screening and diagnostic AI may be represented more positively in the mass media than AI in general. This represents an opportunity for health journalists to provide publics with deeper analysis of the ethical, legal, and social implications of screening and diagnostic AI, and to do so now before these technologies become firmly embedded in everyday healthcare delivery.

Keyphrases

healthcare
artificial intelligence
mental health
public health
machine learning
emergency department
adverse drug
decision making
social media
health promotion