Reacción a "An AI model is capable of predicting the risk of a thousand diseases"

The authors have developed an AI model that is capable of accurately predicting disease and have shown that it works on data from the UK BioBank as well as nearly 2m people from Denmark. However, this is still a long way from improved healthcare as the authors acknowledge that both datasets are biased in terms of age, ethnicity, and current healthcare outcomes. While improved risk scores and the potential for precision medicine is an interesting future goal, the immediate challenge for healthcare is to ensure there is a sufficient digital infrastructure and skills base for everyone, regardless of socio-economic background, so the currently available technologies can be offered to those who most need improved access to treatments.