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IBM Watson for Oncology Criticized by Customers for Allegedly Unsafe and Inaccurate Cancer Treatment Recommendations
- Occurred
- Apr 7, 2017
- Published
- Jul 25, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Internal documents from IBM Watson Health showed negative assessments from customers such as Florida’s Jupiter Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering criticizing its Watson for Oncology product for allegedly unsafe and incorrect cancer treatment recommendations.
Developers
- IBM Watson Health
Deployers
- Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Jupiter Hospital
Harmed parties
- oncologists
- cancer patients
- Patients
- People seeking medical advice
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI system provided unsafe medical advice leading to customer criticism and potential patient harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8