London’s Knowledge Clusters*, a recently published report, looks at the looks at the role of evolving villages or ‘clusters’ based on the life sciences and associated industries including tech. The focus is on outlining opportunities for the property development sector. Read more…
Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care, has promised a technological transformation of the NHS. The opportunities are enormous – the improved delivery of services, supporting the shift from reactive to proactive care Read more…
AI assisted health and care has the potential to change how we deliver services. In health, it’s impacting areas including electronic health records, genomics, and medical imaging. And there is a real potential for AI to significantly impact health and Read more…
We cannot underestimate the level of buzz on AI in health. In the UK, this is evidenced by the volume of projects in hospitals, universities, and the private sector. And there’s an ever growing number of new start-ups. So can Read more…
Does AI have gender? We have a tendency to anthropomorphise technology. We name cars, boats, and sometimes even washing machines. And we humanise technical actors in our world and give them human characteristics – fussy, moody, happy, sad. We’re doing Read more…
Wearable technologies, Real Time Health Systems for monitoring and diagnostics, apps to help with weight loss, insomnia, mental health, the data landscape of health is changing and it’s changing fast. But where do we sit on the regulation of medical Read more…
Imagining AI futures gives us a space to consider our place in the world and ask those tough philosophical questions. What is human nature? What is the nature of the social contract? How do we relate to each other and Read more…
A Magna Carta for the Age of AI? In April 2018, the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence published its report, AI in the UK: Ready, willing and able? Last night I was fortunate to hear Lord Clement-Jones, Read more…
AI ethics podcasts – AI is here and it’s here to stay – in retail and finance, those recommendations you get on Amazon. While still fairly unsophisticated, the direction of travel suggests rapid and wide-ranging applications in the near future Read more…