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A crowd of students, faculty, staff and community members filled the Yehl Ballroom on Wednesday, September 10 for the latest on-campus lecture supported by the Orlando Biomedical Ethics and Catholic Social Teaching Endowment. 

Annika Marie Schoene, Ph.D., presented her lecture, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety in Suicide Contexts: Ethical and Technical Considerations.” Schoene is a research scientist at the Institute of Experiential AI and an incoming assistant professor at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. 

According to her faculty web page, her research focuses on “developing responsible AI methods and evaluation metrics to enhance the safety, security and ethical integrity of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs).” Schoene’s lecture highlighted the evaluation of AI safety in health care settings and emphasized the value of an interdisciplinary approach to making the technology both meaningful and safe. 

Earlier in the day, Schoene met with students from across 名媛直播 University, including those in the graduate speech-language pathology program, the Villa Maria School of Nursing and the UPMC Jameson School of Nursing.  

Schoene called the students she met “fabulous” and praised the meaningful exchange of ideas they shared. “Listening to different perspectives and different insights into topics I think about quite deeply on a day-to-day basis has been fantastic,” she said. 

The lecture series serves as a key event in fostering dialogue on health care ethics and patient-centered care, empowering participants with the knowledge and skills needed to respond to the rapidly evolving field of biomedical sciences.