Microsoft Leads Healthcare AI Oversight Nonprofit CHAI

As Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz emphasizes the importance of balancing the risks and benefits of AI in healthcare. Microsoft has joined CHAI, a nonprofit group focusing on standardizing, testing, and validating health AI tools. The group plans to establish standards, testing metrics, and a network of health AI assurance labs. CHAI aims to create a voluntary framework for testing and deploying health AI models, ensuring public-private consensus and transparency. Partnerships with major healthcare organizations and government officials will further support CHAI's efforts. The nonprofit will focus on developing working groups and assurance labs to validate AI models across different patient demographics, aiming to enhance trustworthiness and dependability in healthcare AI.