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King’s College London announced winner of the Government’s AI Fairness Innovation Challenge

A project led by Dr Zina Ibrahim, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, has won the Government’s artificial intelligence (AI) Fairness Innovation Challenge. The winning project will use AI to address bias in early warning systems used to predict cardiac arrest in hospital wards. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 9 Feb 2024

Pioneering dance performance explores ‘living well with technology’ at King’s Chapel

The Strand Campus’ King’s Chapel hosted a dance performance of Feedback Loops on 18 January 2024 followed by a panel discussion.

The evening showcased Feedback Loops as an arts and science collaboration in the area of living well with technology and brought together colleagues from Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Digital Futures Institute with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 23 Jan 2024

What can humans do to guarantee an ethical AI in healthcare? (Blog: Part II)

A two part feature by Dr Raquel Iniesta  exploring the current status of AI in healthcare, what we need to consider to ensure its application is ethical and current approaches that are helping this happen. Part II: How to achieve ethical AI. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 30 Oct 2023

People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection

New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following COVID-19 infection compared to those without severe mental illness.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 25 Oct 2023

What can humans do to guarantee an ethical AI in healthcare? (Blog: Part I)

A two part feature by Dr Raquel Iniesta  exploring the current status of AI in healthcare, what we need to consider to ensure its application is ethical and current approaches that are helping this happen. Part I: Why do we need ethical AI? 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 24 Oct 2023