Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy - Lessons Learned From the Aviation Industry

Ethical artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks can be the catalyst in improving the safety and wellbeing of people when developing AI systems. In 2020 Rolls-Royce released its ethical and trustworthiness toolkit, The Aletheia Framework^TM, which helps guide organisations as they consider the ethics around the use of AI. It covers three facets: social impact, accuracy and trust, and governance - which apply across all uses of AI. By adopting AI ethics and trust frameworks, oncologists can ensure the ratio between the benefit and harms of AI can be maximised. With AI transforming every sector, collaboration across industries to share ideas and learn from each other - even unlikely partnerships between engineering and oncology - could help optimise that transition.