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The AI life cycle: a holistic approach to creating ethical AI for health decisions

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The ethical impact of AI algorithms in healthcare should be assessed at each phase, from data creation to model deployment, so that their use narrows rather than widens inequalities.

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Fig. 1: Overview of a reimagined AI life cycle.

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the Agency for Health Research & Quality under award no. R01HS027434; the Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub at Stanford University; and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation under grant number 10848 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funders.

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  2. All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Ng, M.Y., Kapur, S., Blizinsky, K.D. et al. The AI life cycle: a holistic approach to creating ethical AI for health decisions. Nat Med 28, 2247–2249 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01993-y

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