Synthetic Data in Research and Healthcare - On Tech Ethics

Discusses the use of synthetic data in research and healthcare. 

Our guest today is Dennis L. Shung, MD, MHS, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Director of Digital Health in Digestive Diseases. He leads the Human+Artificial Intelligence in Medicine lab, which focuses on enhancing human presence with AI. Dennis is also involved in multiple gastroenterology AI initiatives and research.  

Additional resources: 

• NSF Program Solicitation on Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/math-dt-mathematical-foundations-digital-twins/nsf24-559/solicitation 
• AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y 
• Synthetic data in machine learning for medicine and healthcare: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-021-00751-8 
• Synthetic data in medical research: https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000167 
• Harnessing the power of synthetic data in healthcare: innovation, application, and privacy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00927-3 
• Essentials of Responsible AI: https://about.citiprogram.org/course/essentials-of-responsible-ai 
• Big Data and Data Science Research Ethics: https://about.citiprogram.org/course/big-data-and-data-science-research-ethics/