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On November 8, Hannah van Kolfschooten, from the Law Centre for Health and Life, appeared on the website of the Global Health Advocates. In an interview, she gives her expert opinion on the European AI Act and the importance of regulating artificial intelligence.

In the interview van Kolfschooten talks about the importance of legislating Artificial Intelligence (AI) as they can reinforce deep-rooted systematic and societal patterns of f biasbias and health discrimination. This, as van Kolfschooten states, happens in three ways: AI is trained with already-biased data, it excludes certain groups and how it is used can be unfair.

The European AI Act, the first specific regulation on AI in health, would provide an extra layer of protection and would provide more transparency and quality-requirements. However, Van Kolfschooten also discusses a number of limitations in the interview.  

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The main limitation of the AI Act for healthcare is that it is a ‘horizontal’ act (its provisions apply to all sectors) while healthcare is a very specific market. This has consequences for the protection the AI Act offers to patients. Hannah van Kolfschooten on Global Health Advocates
Mr. H.B. (Hannah) van Kolfschooten LLM

Faculty of Law

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