How might AI change and supercharge medical advancement? And what does it mean for our healthcare? Kamran Abbasi, editor of the British Medical Journal, talks to lawyer Susie Alegre and doctor Rachel Clarke about how AI could solve the problem of disease and making vaccines, the role ChatGPT and robots could play in medical care, and how to successfully navigate the path between big business and personal health.
Abbasi is a doctor, journalist, editor and broadcaster. Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer who has worked for NGOs including Amnesty International, and is author of Human Rights, Robot Wrongs. Clarke is a palliative care doctor and author of Dear Life, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and Rippon is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University.
