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The final 'Demystifying Medicine' for 2024 will be two complementary lectures on the use of artificial intelligence in scientific publishing. The speakers are Holden Thorp, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals, and Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., a bioethicist and president and CEO of The Hastings Center. The lectures will be on May 7 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10. The topic will be of particular importance to our trainee population, who are beginning their scientific careers at the dawn of AI. We will be discussing issues of scientific integrity, scientific accuracy, ethics, and legality as it relates to artificial intelligence. Come early for a pre-lecture reception. Our first speaker, Dr. Thorp, assumed his current position at Science in October 2019. He is a chemist by training, and he completed postdoctoral work at Yale University with Gary W. Brudvig working on model compounds and reactions for the manganese cluster in the photosynthetic reaction center. For his NIH talk, Thorp will discuss the limits of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT for writing papers, however countering with the enormous positive potential AI has for assisting research design and analysis. Our second speaker, Dr. Ravitsky, who will now need to join us remotely, became president of The Hastings Center in September 2023. The Hastings Center is a nonprofit organization that produces publications on ethical issues in health, science, and technology that inform policy, practice, and public understanding. Ravitsky has established her career as an expert focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. The Demystifying Medicine Series, jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, includes presentations on pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward PhD students, clinicians and program managers, this series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. Each session includes clinical and basic science components presented by NIH staff and invitees. All students, trainees, fellows, and staff are welcome to participate.
For more information go to https://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov |
