Trilateral Research recently attended the MPNE Consensus Data event in the framework of iToBoS project, held in Berlin between January 31st and February 2nd, 2024.
The event was hosted at Lanolin Fabrik by Fraunhofer, partner in iToBoS. At the event, Trilateral Research hosted a workshop on Ethical AI. The goal was to introduce Trilateral to the group of patient advocates, and them to us, and to open up an important dialogue avenue with the stakeholder group.
The session was moderated by Robin Renwick and Sarah Murray and explored topics and themes relevant to the iToBoS project, with specific focus on health data, artificial intelligence, and ethics. The session was guide by humour, candidness and existential questioning, with the moderators trying to provoke participants to share perspectives, views, hopes, fears, and expectations for emerging technology and data-led strategies in the future provision of health care.
Trilateral also introduced their concept of ‘Ethical AI’ to the group. Ethical AI is artificial intelligence created ethically and created for ethical use. We know that achieving this is a complex task, especially within a fast-moving domain such as health, but Trilateral feel that it is a goal worth pursuing.
The basis of Ethical AI revolves around key themes - which were presented to the group - such as bias mitigation; explainability; ethics-, privacy-, and security- by design; subject matter expertise; co-design methods; and accountability and governance.
The Ethical AI workshop in Berlin was one of the most important avenues for drawing in subject matter expertise from the patients themselves, including perspectives concerning critical topics like accountability and governance. The workshop was also similar to other co-design methods where topics, ideas, and themes are discussed in open, honest, and frank discussions between stakeholder groups.
The workshop was viewed as a conversation starter – one that Trilateral hopes will continue throughout the remainder of the project. Trilateral used a combination of cartoons and Slido polls to initiate discussion and draw out important themes.
The cartoons were used to incite debate, discussion, and opinions in a manner that was fun, inclusive, and topical. The cartoons were used to stir the pot of ideas from the audience, gather interesting perspectives, stories, and hopes and fears - with the goal to obtain key themes from the groups that could be used to frame later discussions.
The event was a success, with Trilateral coming away from the workshop enthused by the participation, knowledge, and passion of the participants. The outcomes will be folded into the ongoing research within ‘WP2 - Privacy, data protection, ethical and societal issues in iToBoS solutions’ and discussed in upcoming blogs. Watch this space!
Find out more at MPNE consensus 2024 on data, AI and data-dependent business models and the iToBoS partner Trilateral Research.