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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna pump my own paper here which is basically saying it’s the wrong problem to focus on for making good decisions in medicine 😅

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Explaining decisions without explainability? Artificial intelligence and medicolegal accountability

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 9d

We’ve also pre-registered our study on OSF to encourage transparency and sharing with the scientific community

osf.io/p6tm5

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 9d

This shared accountability is important to limiting the expanding problem of moral crumple zones, per -

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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 9d

This is a feasible, generalizable approach to evaluating commercial scribe tools to make an informed decision about where they fit (and don’t fit) & building clinical procedures to share the accountability between physicians and their health institution

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 9d

Sharing our pre-print for a comprehensive silent evaluation of a commercial AI Scribe tool at Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide!

Co-developed by our multi-d team of physicians, Aboriginal Health colleagues and consumers ❤️

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A medical algorithmic audit framework for evaluating the safety, equity, and quality of an AI Scribe tool in a paediatric developmental assessment clinic

Background Any tool that can reduce the administrative burden on healthcare providers while preserving safe, accountable and high-quality medical documentation is of immense value both to healthcare i...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 18d

I like the argument that is glimpsed in @abeba.bsky.social ‘s work - we can oppose using robots in this way w/o the anthropomorphising that is dehumanising. Curious if @abeba.bsky.social you’re expanding some of the argumentation in 2.3 of the paper?

arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046

Robot Rights? Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead

The 'robot rights' debate, and its related question of 'robot responsibility', invokes some of the most polarized positions in AI ethics. While some advocate for granting robots rights on a par with h...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 18d

Do you know what I find wild tho? Nearly a decade of being an ethicist - raising concerns, questions, challenges in a plethora of contexts has been my job. This is different. I’ve never felt so at risk personally for doing this as I do for LLMs. People get personally offended, get nasty even.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 19d

“is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did?”

^^^* YES, we are!!!

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hey #AIEthics people (and all people as well!), got a question for you…

Is anyone else 100% completely and totally fed up with AI ethics?

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 27

I think it’s kinda fascinating to see the epistemic struggle in this write-up between the beliefs espoused about LLM “capabilities” versus the considerations re ethics violations… 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 24

I hate that I believe you are 100% correct on this prediction 🫠

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 11

Always stunning how the scientific standards for study designs and the claims one can make from them get thrown out the window when it involves AI. Any study that is not longitudinal is meaningless given we are now seeing the long term effects of AI use = worse learning and performance.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 9

I will believe AI has PhD-level knowledge when every response is concluded with a suggestion of a local seminar or talk that has free food 🍕☕️

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Lana Tikhomirov @lanatikhomirov.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our preprint is up! Ever heard of the silent phase of AI evaluation for medical AI? Well, now we’ve summarised the current state of research!

Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are also SO excited to release our preprint for our scoping review reporting on current #silenttrial practices for #HealthAI

@lanatikhomirov.bsky.social did an amazing job leading this work all the way through ❤️

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 6

Please get in touch if you do or are interested in the silent evaluation phase - we want to hear from you!

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are also SO excited to release our preprint for our scoping review reporting on current #silenttrial practices for #HealthAI

@lanatikhomirov.bsky.social did an amazing job leading this work all the way through ❤️

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 6

🤩Excited to share that Project CANAIRI has an official website!

Find out about our team, our work, and how to get involved!

www.projectcanairi.org

Project CANAIRI

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are moving into healthcare at a steady pace in the hopes that they will augment care, administrative tasks, and support clinicians in their daily workflows. The fie...

www.projectcanairi.org

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Aug 4

And in between there are the doors 🚪

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out that #Google was publicly logging ChatGPT conversations that people had shared (privately, or so they thought) with friends. There are conversations about mental health, sex, etc. Do you still think #OpenAI take #privacy seriously? By @stokel.bsky.social

fastcompanyme.com/technology/g...

Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be

Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have seen this!! We tested some models with dummy data and found that someone calling someone or something “deadly” was ALWAYS coded as negative sentiment (it’s the opposite!) We ended up deciding the sentiment function will be useless and scrapped it.

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Jul 29

A new study shows large language models find it much harder to understand the nuances of Indian, British and Australian English.

‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have also wondered whether using the common name (eg ChatGPT, Gemini) in papers (esp titles) instead of the actual model name/version is like using the brand name of the drug rather than the substrate… probably not gonna look good down the line

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Jul 1

It was so much fun chatting to @dsilvaphd.bsky.social on SHE Pod about all things #AIEthics!

We chatted about a recent paper I wrote with Mjaye Mazwi and Lauren Oakden-Rayner where we asked, when is an accurate model a bad thing? And why?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Oct 10

'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.'
My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services

Too many people might be left out of its revolution.

www.newstatesman.com

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy Canada Day from the land down under!! 🍁🇨🇦🫎

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · Jun 28

I think the reality is that, rather than a serious reflection by a qualified scholar, so many people will simply spit out any “edgy” faux-philosophical analysis because publishing literally any bollocks on AI is trendy these days 🤷🏼‍♀️

Bye, Felicia

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 28

It's a competitive field, but extra marks for this extremely stupid essay on "AI and the humanities" for leaning heavily in its author's expertise in the history of technology. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

www.newyorker.com

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