To celebrate our 100th episode we partnered with the Public Policy Institute at the University of Western Australia to hold a live event at the Backlot cinema in West Perth in May 2024. We invited a panel of experts to discuss the use of AI in healthcare and heard different perspectives on what the risks and benefits are of using AI for many aspects of healthcare.
Our panel included:
Tania Harris, Engagement Manager, Aboriginal and Disability Engagement Lead at the Health Consumers Council of Western Australia - https://www.hconc.org.au who discussed how AI could be beneficial to healthcare consumers, but also the potential risks and downsides to having less human contact when receiving healthcare
Dr Yuliya Karpievitch from the Telethon Kids Institute - https://www.telethonkids.org.au/contact-us/our-people/k/yuliya-karpievitch/ who discussed using AI to tackle the challenge of anti-microbial resistance that is likely to result in antibiotics being ineffective by 2050
Elizabeth Lang, a PhD candidate and CEO/founder of Diversity Focus - https://diversityfocus.com.au who talked about the need to include data from a diverse range of people in the algorithms used to train AI to ensure that it works effectively across to entire population, not just people from specific demographic groups
A/Prof Marco Rizzi from the University of Western Australia’s Law School - https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/marco-rizzi who discussed some of the regulatory and legal considerations when AI is used in healthcare, including who may be liable when things go wrong
A huge thank you to our panellists who generously gave their time and ventured out on what was a very wet evening in Perth.
Also, a big thank you to Ian Hale and the team at the Backlot for providing such a wonderful venue, it really helped to make the evening special: https://www.thebacklotperth.com
A massive thank you to A/Prof Paul Maginn and Clare Feenan from the UWA Public Policy Institute who supported and led the co-ordination of this event, it was a pleasure working with them, and they do excellent work to ensure that society’s most important issues are featured in the public discourse: https://www.uwa.edu.au/institutes/public-policy/home
Finally, thank you to all the people who have joined us as guests on the podcast, and also those who have listened to our episodes and supported the podcast since we started in 2019. It is a privilege to produce the podcast and we continue to learn and evolve and look forward to bringing you the next 100 episodes!
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