Riyadh to host fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
Sessions will examine how countries and regions can play a greater role in shaping international AI ethics standards.
Health AI
Wearables, ambient monitoring and the case for explainable AI: a conversation with Dr Amel Havkic
With technology moving faster than society can adapt, Dr Amel Havkic argues that human review before autonomous output reaches an end user, and a clear account of why a system…
Saudi Arabia leads global peers in AI and digital health adoption, EY report finds
The maturity of Saudi Arabia's digital health landscape reportedly gives healthcare organisations and policymakers an opportunity to connect innovation with clinical care.
New partnership to strengthen Singapore’s AI-in-healthcare talent pipeline
LKCMedicine and SGInnovate aim to deepen the links between education, research, industry and entrepreneurship, with a view to preparing graduates for an increasingly AI-enabled healthcare landscape.
Hong Kong’s ASTRI partners with Saint Francis University on AI-driven health research
The partnership will also extend into digital health, elderly care, special educational needs support, smart city applications and education technology.
Thai medical imaging AI firm Perceptra expands into international markets
Perceptra also launched Inspectra MMG, a mammography AI tool the company says is designed for Asian breast tissue and intended to support earlier detection of breast cancer.
Singapore rolls out sector-wide agentic AI platform for public healthcare staff
Use cases cited include clinical record summarisation, procurement reviews, roster generation and general productivity tasks.
The next monopoly won’t be technology. It’ll be trust.
The next monopoly, Vishnu Narayan argues, may not belong to those who build the most powerful intelligence - it may belong to those who become the world's most trusted custodians…
China issues ethics guidelines for AI medical imaging research
The guidelines are intended to govern algorithm development, clinical validation and deployment of AI systems used to analyse scans such as CT, MRI, PET and ultrasound.