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AI in Healthcare to Save Billions of Lives, Not Replace Doctors, Say Leaders

Industry leaders at the AI Impact Summit positioned healthcare as the sector where AI could have its greatest human impact by easing pressure on systems and improving lives. They emphasized the vision for personal AI superintelligence that knows and serves individual users, contingent on responsible deployment with trust and transparency. A significant challenge highlighted is the readiness of infrastructure, data, and operations to support AI at an industrial scale. Furthermore, the deep link between AI's growth and global energy demands was underscored, alongside AI's potential to drive efficiency in the energy transition.

Key Points: AI's Human Impact in Healthcare & Energy, Say Industry CEOs

  • AI augments clinicians, giving them time to care
  • Personal AI superintelligence must be built responsibly
  • Trust and governance must keep pace with AI models
  • AI's energy demand is a critical challenge for global systems
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AI in healthcare to be remembered for billions of lives it helped improve

Industry leaders at AI Impact Summit highlight AI's role in improving billions of lives in healthcare, personal superintelligence, and the energy transition.

"AI in healthcare will not be remembered for what was optimised on a screen, but for the billions of lives it helped improve. - Roy Jakobs"

New Delhi, Feb 20

AI is not about replacing clinicians; it is about giving time back to them, time to think, time to connect and time to care, according to industry leaders.

Roy Jakobs, CEO, Philips, positioned healthcare as the sector where AI could have the greatest human impact.

Highlighting how AI is already easing pressure on overburdened systems at the AI Impact Summit here, he said that "When we look back a decade from now, AI in healthcare will not be remembered for what was optimised on a screen, but for the billions of lives it helped improve."

Alexander Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta, highlighted AI's growing integration into everyday life and India's central role in shaping its trajectory.

Emphasising the company's vision for "personal superintelligence," he said, "Our vision is personal superintelligence, AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing".

"It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are." Underscoring the importance of responsible deployment, he added, "Given how intimately your personal AI will know you, people aren't going to hire us for the job if we're not doing it responsibly. Trust, transparency and governance must move as fast as the models themselves," said Wang.

According to Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl, "The innovation is real. The challenge is readiness. AI today is not yet industrialised, infrastructure, data, operations and people must be prepared to support it at scale."

Stressing trust and governance, he added, "The future of AI will not be decided in research labs or boardrooms. It will be decided by how reliably and responsibly it is embedded into the systems society depends on every day."

Olivier Blum, Global CEO, Schneider Electric, underscored the deep interlinkages between AI and the global energy transition.

"AI means more compute, and more compute means more energy. We cannot underestimate the pressure this will put on global energy systems," he noted. At the same time, he pointed to AI's transformative potential for efficiency.

- IANS

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Arjun K
"AI not replacing clinicians but giving them time back" - this is the perfect way to frame it. My sister is a doctor in a govt hospital and she's exhausted. Tools that handle admin or preliminary scans could let her focus on the human connection, which is what healing is all about. Hope this reaches tier-2 and tier-3 cities soon.
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Rohit P
All this talk of "personal superintelligence" knowing my goals sounds exciting but also a bit scary. Wang is right about trust and governance. In India, with so much diversity in language and culture, any AI health tool must be built responsibly and without bias. Data privacy is a major concern we can't ignore.
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Sarah B
The energy point by Olivier Blum is crucial. We're already facing power shortages in summer. If AI data centers add to that load, we need a parallel push for green energy solutions. Solar and AI for smart grids should go hand-in-hand. Sustainable tech is the only way forward.
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Vikram M
Promising vision, but I have a respectful criticism. These summits often feel like they're in a bubble. The real test is making this tech affordable and accessible to the common man in Dharavi or a village in Bihar, not just private hospitals in South Delhi. Hope the implementation matches the rhetoric.
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Kavya N
True! AI can be a great equalizer. Imagine a tool in a primary health centre that helps identify complications in pregnancy early, or a mobile app that translates symptoms for a doctor who doesn't speak the local language. That's the "billion lives" impact we need. Fingers crossed! 🤞

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