Policy Council on Trustworthy AI in Healthcare in SFO
- Melodena Stephens
- Aug 6
- 1 min read

We held our first policy council using design thinking on Trustworthy AI in Healthcare in San Fransisco, hosted by Databricks.
The participants came from differnt professions - doctors, medical policy, policy and governance, technology, AI investors and AI health users. We had Stanford, Berkley, IEEE, XRSI, and other representations - making this a very successful outcome.
Eight curated exercises, three excellent facilitators and two hours later -
We together:
👍 Identified perceptions of Trustworthy AI
👍 Co-created AI use cases
👍 Identified areas in the AI lifecycle that were like a blackbox
👍 Looked at characteristics of Trustworthy AI that mattered to us
👍 Identified trade-offs for Trustworthy AI

Some interesting perspectives -
"We don't have a trust gap - we have a trust vacuum".

"Bias is built into AI - we cannot remove it"

"We need a shared responsibility model". "Technology moves at a pace that leaves the technologists behind [and policy makers!]"

Another program coming to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 7-August, 2025: Registration Link for the Boston Workshop (limited spaces): https://lnkd.in/d9w22ueu

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