Checklist Released for Safe Development and Use of Medical AI

On November 13, 2026 at 17:00, the AI section of DEV Community published an article titled "A Checklist for the Safe Use and Development of Medical AI". After spending weeks reading about scribes, answer engines, chart copilots, patient assistants, regulators, and data, the author kept returning to the same seven core questions when evaluating or building medical AI, and turned them into a checklist.

The checklist is meant to work two ways: as a set of items for ordinary users to verify before relying on a health AI, and as a specification for developers who are building trustworthy products. Its questions focus on source traceability and how the system handles uncertainty. For example, the first item asks whether the AI shows where its answer came from. A simple link is not proof, but a source that a person can open is treated as the minimum requirement; if nothing is shown, the answer should be treated as a guess. The second item asks whether the AI tells you when it does not know, including answering honestly when it has no source for a given claim.

At this point, only this single piece of coverage is available, and it does not include the remaining questions in the checklist or any later developments tied to it.