Laws, norms, and ethics for AI in health; Microsoft, May 1, 2025

 Peter Lee , President, Microsoft Research  Vardit Ravitsky , President and CEO  Laura Adams , Senior Advisor  Dr. Roxana Daneshjou , Assistant Professor, Microsoft; Laws, norms, and ethics for AI in health

"Two years ago, OpenAI’s GPT-4 kick-started a new era in AI. In the months leading up to its public release, Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Research, cowrote a book full of optimism for the potential of advanced AI models to transform the world of healthcare. What has happened since? In this special podcast series, The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited, Lee revisits the book, exploring how patients, providers, and other medical professionals are experiencing and using generative AI today while examining what he and his coauthors got right—and what they didn’t foresee. 

In this episode, Laura Adams(opens in new tab), Vardit Ravitsky(opens in new tab), and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou(opens in new tab), experts at the intersection of healthcare, ethics, and technology, join Lee to discuss the responsible implementation of AI in healthcare. Adams, a strategic advisor at the National Academy of Medicine leading the development of a national AI code of conduct, shares her initial curiosity and skepticism of generative AI and then her recognition of the technology as a transformative tool requiring new governance approaches. Ravitsky, bioethicist and president and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics, examines how AI is reshaping healthcare relationships and the need for bioethics to proactively guide implementation. Daneshjou, a Stanford physician-scientist bridging dermatology, biomedical data science, and AI, discusses her work on identifying, understanding, and mitigating bias in AI systems and also leveraging AI to better serve patient needs."