Late one Friday evening in December 2017, a group of worried Babylon Health doctors sat down for a meeting with Ali Parsa, the 53-year-old founder of the London-based healthcare app maker. The new bot would go to Babylon’s own app users that December, then to patients of Britain’s National Health Service sometime in the future. It probably comes as little surprise that AI hasn’t yet evolved to the point where it can replace—or even reliably supplement—human medical doctors. But doctors inside his startup Babylon Health have been worried about the way that AI is being developed. In June, a British doctor who was testing the new diagnostic chatbot on Babylon’s app found an error: It had missed symptoms of a hypothetical pulmonary embolism.

Source: Forbes December 17, 2018 10:52 UTC