A recent debate hosted by the Digital Health Networks looked at beliefs about the use of AI into healthcare and concluded that AI can be integrated safely into clinical use where proper guidelines are in place. Speaking for the motion "that AI is not yet ready for widespread clinical use", Dr Nisha Sharma, director of breast screening and clinical lead for breast imaging at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and Dr Marcus Baw, locum GP and "General Hacktitioner", said that while they believed in the use of AI in clinical workspaces, they were concerned that some parts of the health system were unprepared for their use, and some aspects of the technology also weren't sufficiently developed to be reliable. "I'm active in research using AI, and when I think of artificial intelligence, I think you've got algorithms that are low-risk and high-risk," Sharma said. "And this is really focused on the high-risk algorithms, which are making clinical decisions." Key challenges to using clinical