Author: Satish Antony

The withdrawal of the Draft National AI Policy Framework shortly after its release, while unfortunate, can be viewed as among the best motivations to engage with the myriad AI risks and the need for such a framework. The Minister of Communications, Solly Malatsi, reported that the draft cited non-existent academic and legal sources, a failure known as “AI hallucination.” He observed that this error, ironically, demonstrated the necessity of human oversight, which was the intended subject of the policy. Despite this hiccup, the draft is an important step. All parts of the healthcare value chain will be looking forward to…