In the organizer's words:
From dystopia to utopia
New methods, materials and technologies have always changed our environment and our lives. Almost all new developments have both advantages and disadvantages. Depending on how we use them and talk about them, they can give us hope or scare us. We have invited three scientists from very different fields to present their personal dystopias. Get ready for (entertaining) worst-case scenarios. But of course we don't want to stop there. Together and with AI support, we want to develop positive narratives and motivating utopias from these dystopias in order to start the weekend full of hope.
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Marianne Tokic is...
...a psychologist by training and has been a research assistant in the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology at Ruhr University Bochum since 2019. Here she (among other things) accompanies research projects on healthcare research and digital medicine.
Digitalization in medical care - dystopian dangers, utopian possibilities?
Technological progress is rapidly finding its way into our everyday lives and also into our medical practices: appointments are made using online forms, chatbots assist with pharmacy orders and AI systems support doctors with diagnoses. And current research has even more far-reaching possibilities in store. This development comes at a time when there is a shortage of staff in hospitals and care facilities and (GP) practices are overloaded. A pessimistic projection of the current situation into the future quickly gives rise to a dystopia; a future in which algorithms determine access to medical care, in which the medical profession is reduced to an administrative position and in which patients have to argue with chatbots. I would like to invite you to draw a different possible future in which we combine the emerging resources with humanity to achieve better overall care with less burden for all.
Price information:
The talk is free of charge. Please register for the evening by e-mail: innovative-citizen@fraunhofer.de
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