Final in a series of blog posts by Early Career Researchers from this year’s 55th UACES Annual Conference in Liverpool, where Philip Jeremiah Ryan presented aspects of his research on regulating technology.
Regulating technology can be difficult, and the current explosion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left even the companies producing the technologies struggling to keep up. Healthcare applications powered by general purpose Large Langauge Models (LLMs) are increasingly promising to completely change the provision of care. In medicine and in law expecting one tool to be a solution for everything has similar issues. AI as a panacea can be a poison as much as a cure, especially as it removes protection and agency for users and adds workarounds for necessary regulations. While the lack of service and capacity in healthcare could be addressed by products like “AI agents”, their implementation should not be allowed to escape the regulations already in place. […]
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About the author:
Philip Jeremiah Ryan recently defended his PhD – Bureaucracy Mapping: Inclusive Design for Institutional Navigation – at University College Dublin. His research interests span bureaucracy, inclusive design, and creative technology innovation which focuses on healthcare, disability, migration, and AI.