Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally
NEWS AND VIEWS 04 August 2026 Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model. People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks. By Haoran Zhang0 & Marzyeh Ghassemi1 Haoran Zhang Haoran Zhang is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
- ▪NEWS AND VIEWS 04 August 2026 Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model.
- ▪People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks.
- ▪By Haoran Zhang0 & Marzyeh Ghassemi1 Haoran Zhang Haoran Zhang is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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NEWS AND VIEWS 04 August 2026 Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model. People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks. By Haoran Zhang0 & Marzyeh Ghassemi1 Haoran Zhang Haoran Zhang is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. View author publications Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Marzyeh Ghassemi Marzyeh Ghassemi is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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