I am excited by the idea of using AI to help people manage ilness and health conditions. This isnt very sexy, but I think there is real potential to improve health outcomes and quality of life.

I review some data on usage of AI in healthcare, and conclude that the most common uses in 2025 are probably (A) giving personalised health information to patients and (B) helping clinicians write documents. We’ve worked on these topics at Aberdeen, but most researchers focus on AI for decision support, which is not widely used.

My student Adarsa Sivaprasad is looking into what questions users of an AI prediction model actually have, and how these should be answered. Amongst other things, users seem to have more questions about what information a model considers than about how a model works.