A new legislation that would make doctors accountable for all medical errors, including those caused by deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, has been presented to Parliament.
The proposal, spearheaded by Strategic Thinking Bloc president and Parliament’s financial and economic affairs committee chairman MP Ahmed Al Salloom, seeks to ensure that human accountability and oversight remain paramount in healthcare, despite the increasing use of advanced technologies.
“If AI takes over, or is fully relied upon, in an operating theatre or hospital ward, rather than the responsible medic, then it is clearly a human error that should be penalised,” said Mr Al Salloom. “AI is 98 per cent reliable, but it should always be the human being knowing what’s going on. It is not like autopilot – medical human supervision is necessary,” he added.
The proposed amendments cover several landmark pieces of legislation, including the 1989 Human Medicine and Dentistry Law, the 2006 Labour Market Regulatory Law, the 2013 Supreme Council for Health Set-up Law and the 2018 Health Insurance Law.
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