Recording available: AI in healthcare – Big reward, equal risk?
The potential benefits of artificial intelligence in healthcare are abundant, and so are the ethical and legal challenges.
On 21 January 2026, Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist and Jennifer Viberg Johansson gave a presentation about artificial intelligence in healthcare and how we can integrate it responsibly while preserving the values that define good and fair care.
Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist & Jennifer Viberg Johansson are both active at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics.
European regulation, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, classifies medical AI as high-risk, requiring strict standards for transparency, risk management, and human control. The challenge is not only technical, but ethical.
From broad ethical principles through clinical reality, Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist and Jennifer Viberg Johansson guides us through the particularities of implementing a disruptive technology like artificial intelligence in the healthcare system, where transparency, fairness and quality are of the upmost importance. These values must guide the transition to ensure trust and patient safety and that issues of fairness, and of ensuring alternative treatment options are available when AI-based solutions fail, are not overlooked.
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References
Viberg Johansson J, Dembrower K, Strand F, et al Women’s perceptions and attitudes towards the use of AI in mammography in Sweden: a qualitative interview study BMJ Open 2024;14:e084014. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-084014
Johansson JV, Engström E. ‘Humans think outside the pixels’ – Radiologists’ perceptions of using artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in mammography screening in a clinical setting. Health Informatics Journal. 2024;30(3). doi: 10.1177/14604582241275020