Safety, Hallucination, and Failure Modes in Agentic Health AI: A State-of-the-Art Review
The deployment of agentic artificial intelligence systems in clinical environments is accelerating rapidly, with autonomous agents increasingly applied across radiology, clinical decision support, intensive care monitoring, drug discovery, and patient facing care. Unlike conventional single turn AI tools, agentic systems autonomously plan multistep tasks, invoke external tools, retain memory across interactions, and pursue clinical goals with minimal human intervention, introducing a qualitatively distinct and poorly characterised safety profile that existing literature has not comprehensively addressed. This paper addresses […]