Artificial intelligence policy as a contact sport
Why bioethics and governance need to up their game in the health sector
Speaker Dr Eric Meslin
Book here for this free lecture incl. drinks and networking
Wednesday 17 April 2024
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK
The proposed uses of AI in the health sector have elicited reactions from hope to handwringing to hype. In response, governments, NGOs, professional organizations, and the standards community have been busy developing guidelines, frameworks, principles, and other oversight tools with the laudable intention of crafting responsible governance policy for AI in health. Yet with so many players and documents in circulation, it is not surprising that there are gaps, inconsistencies, and contradictions, impeding the very progress such work was meant to enable.
This lecture will examine the roots and causes of these impediments, including those in the bioethics and governance communities themselves, and consider what steps might be taken now to ensure that health care can benefit from AI for the right reasons.
Eric M. Meslin, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, ICD.D.
Dr. Eric Meslin has had a 35-year long career spanning clinical, academic, government and not-for-profit settings, a common thread through which has been a focus on ethical, social and policy implications of health, science, and technology. He recently stepped down after eight years as President and CEO.of the Council of Canadian Academies, an organization that undertakes assessments of evidence for the Government of Canada on climate, science and technology, innovation, health care, and energy policy.
