Google DeepMind's initial healthcare collaboration with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. It details the transfer of millions of identifiable patient records for the Streams AKI app and raises critical issues regarding patient consent, data privacy, regulatory oversight, transparency, and the power dynamics of private tech companies in public healthcare. Drawing lessons from this case study, it discusses the challenges and implications as healthcare moves into an algorithmic age.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a science focused on creating intelligent machines mimicking human intelligence like perception, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving. This transformative technology impacts society and the economy across healthcare, education, manufacturing, and security. AI offers advantages like speed, handling complexity, high success rates, and efficiency, while also posing challenges such as job losses, high development costs, limited creativity, security risks, and difficulties with ambiguity and ethical decisions. Despite these challenges, AI development continues rapidly.