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The framework names "intelligent healthcare" alongside autonomous driving, brain-inspired intelligence and brain-computer interfaces as a frontier field requiring a stronger AI safety talent pipeline.
Laos's Assistant Minister for Technology and Communication said the country had identified healthcare as one of the sectors set to benefit from AI.
HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan argues that AI regulation should favour compatibility and coordination over full convergence - a more durable alternative to a universal rulebook.
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…
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…
The age of collaborative science should not be defined by how much reasoning machines can perform, argues HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan.
AI governance will depend less on building increasingly capable systems than on strengthening the institutions responsible for deploying them wisely, writes Vishnu Narayan.
Healthcare is shifting from treating illness to continuously inferring risk, raising urgent governance questions, writes HealthTechAsia's Vishnu Narayan.
The proposed Bill would introduce central institutional oversight, principle-based national baselines, and a risk-based approach to regulation.