West Michigan medical professionals gathered discussing artificial intelligence, or AI, and how it impacts medical advancements across the region.
Dr. Mark Traill is a Diagnostic Radiologist with University of Michigan Health – West who considers AI his partner in his work diagnosing breast cancer.
“10 to 30% of cancers on mammograms are missed by the human reader. They might be there, the next person that looks at it might see it, but the first person missed it. So, what the AI has done for me is I miss fewer cancers.”
California Democrat, U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, who also co-chairs the newly established bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, was on hand to discuss the federal government’s role when it comes to AI.
“Most AI the federal government is not going to regulate because it’s not harming people. Now there’s going to be some AI that could harm people and so we’re looking at reasonable guardrails on, but it’s really hard to know right now because of how fast-moving AI is.”
Lieu says the AI Task Force is working on a report that sets forth what types of AI Congress should consider regulating. That report is expected by the end of the year.
The forum was hosted by Grand Rapids Democratic Congresswoman Hillary Scholten.
