Join the Infoway Health Analytics Community on April 24th at 2:00pm EST for a presentation by Frank Rudzicz, Associate Professor at Dalhousie University for a presentation on the importance of responsible AI in healthcare.
Frank Rudzicz is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, founding faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, status professor at the University of Toronto, Killam Memorial Chair, and Canada CIFAR Chair in Artificial Intelligence. His work is in machine learning in healthcare, especially in natural language processing, speech recognition, and safe AI. His students have founded several companies in AI and Health that have had successful exits, including Winterlight Labs and Mutuo Health Solutions. His research has appeared in popular media such as Scientific American, Wired, CBC, and the New York Times, and in scientific press such as ACL, NeurIPS, JAMA, and Nature.
His talk emphasizes the importance of responsible AI in healthcare, especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It outlines four key principles: transparency, fairness, accountability, and privacy, arguing that ethical AI is not only a moral imperative but a practical one that reduces risk, builds trust, and creates a competitive edge. Through real-world healthcare examples—like diagnostic support, report generation, and resource optimization—we illustrate AI’s transformative potential while cautioning against biases, privacy issues, and the dangers of insufficient oversight.