Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to impact society in various and profound ways. This development promises benefits and poses risks particularly in the health care domain, where high-stake decisions are frequently made. It is inevitable that health care will face significant changes through the introduction of AI systems that are intended to support the health care system with diagnosis, treatment decision-making, hospital management, medical research and development, nursing care, and the health infrastructure (homecare, insurance etc.) more broadly.

The conference ‘Responsible AI in Health Care’ will clearly map how the introduction of AI in medicine unfolds, which aspects of the health care systems will be impacted most, and how this impact will unfold. First and foremost, it intends to discuss in depth, the normative question how to shape this transition in a responsible way.

As the WHO calls for “safe and ethical medical AI”, academics and practitioners are pressed to address the question, which of the ongoing and future developments in medical AI are desirable or could be desirable under the right conditions. Prominent voices have suggested that the introduction of medical AI can “make medicine human again” (Topol 2019). Warnings, however, that the introduction of medical AI systems undermines the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship, that it threatens responsibility attribution in that system, that it reproduces existing social biases and inequalities (e.g. in diagnostic processes), that it disorients medical research and makes health care more inefficient, have equally been issued.

Hence, what would it mean to make AI practices responsible? What values would need to be implemented in the design of those technologies and how can this be done? What other ways can we discover to ensure that health care stays responsible after the introduction of AI? These and other empirical and normative questions will be discussed in depth during this international conference.

The conference brings together inspiring key opinion leaders and scientific experts on the development of AI for health care. We are convinced that new connections and collaborations between fields and disciplines can and will grow to exchange knowledge and optimize the impact we can make together. This collaboration across disciplines and practices is the most promising avenue to optimal usage of AI in health care practice. All considerations, opinions, research approaches or project plans around responsible use of AI in healthcare are welcome in our debates, panels and keynotes..

This first event brings together between 400 and 650 international representatives of academia, business and industry focusing on developing AI responsibly, either from medical, ethical, social science, design, legal and data science perspectives.

We hope you’ll join us in this important and inspiring endeavor!