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WHO issues guidance on large multi-modal models in health care, with 40+ recommendations

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Source: World Health Organization

The World Health Organization published ‘Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: Guidance on large multi-modal models’ on 18 January 2024, with more than 40 recommendations, mainly for governments and developers. It covers five uses: diagnosis and clinical care, patient-guided use, clerical tasks, medical and nursing education, and research and drug development. It asks governments to assign a regulator to approve such models and to require independent, published audits after large-scale deployment.

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Health ministries and developers had a WHO reference for governing generative AI in care, including regulator approval and published audits once models are widely deployed.

When
18 Jan 2024
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WTA-N-2024-0004
Who
WHO

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from World Health Organization. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at World Health Organization

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0004: “WHO issues guidance on large multi-modal models in health care, with 40+ recommendations.” wheresthe.ai, 18 Jan 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-who-lmm-health-guidance-2024-01/ (source: World Health Organization).

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