Artificial Intelligence and the Flourishing of Being
Hosted by MIT Alumni AI Group - MITAS
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Leo Anthony Celi, Clinical Research Director at MIT’s Laboratory for Computational Physiology, will explore whether AI will diminish or strengthen what makes us human. The conversation will examine AI’s impact on human potential and flourishing.
Inside the event
AI is learning from us faster than we are learning about it. Models trained on health data now shape who gets diagnosed, who gets believed, and who gets care. But data is never neutral. It carries the political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped how it was collected, along with its silences and distortions. A model trained on that data does not just inherit those harms. It scales them.
Leo Anthony Celi helped build MIMIC, one of the world’s most widely used open clinical databases. In this talk, he asks whether AI will erode what makes us human or help it flourish. His answer: it depends on whether we understand our ingredients before we start cooking.
In this conversation, we'll explore
- Why modelling data without knowing how it came to be is a form of epistemic violence
- Why open science is a moral commitment, not just a method
- What it takes for science to earn, and keep earning, public trust
- How lived experience and ways of knowing that resist quantification can make AI more rigorous, not less
The talk is for anyone who builds, funds, regulates, or relies on AI, in health care and beyond. The session ends with an open Q&A.
People on the program
- Leo Anthony Celi
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