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Listen to our podcast with two AI and Faith experts and leading voices working at the intersection of AI and healthcare ethics: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Yuriko Ryan. They explore how responsible AI design intersects with healthcare ethics. Particularly as AI systems increasingly shape diagnosis, care, and decision-making for aging and vulnerable populations. The discussion focused on what faith-informed ethical frameworks can offer to AI systems that affect, and in a growing number of cases substantially determine, decisions affecting human lives. Listen now to our conversation.
Host:
Greg Cootsona is the Executive Director for AI and Faith. He is also a lecturer in Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. Additionally, he is co-founder of Science for the Church, a nonprofit bringing science and technology to Christian congregations. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he serves as Pastor of Discipleship and Care at Bidwell Presbyterian Church.
Greg has authored multiple books including Science and Religions in America (2023) and Negotiating Science and Religion in America (2020), both receiving major book nominations. He has directed $4.6 million in grants from organizations including the John Templeton Foundation, focusing on emerging adult ministries and science-theology integration. With a Ph.D. in systematic and philosophical theology emphasizing theology and science, Greg has appeared on major media outlets (CNN, NBC’s Today Show, NPR) and spoken at several universities (Columbia, Rice, Duke). He serves, or has served, on advisory councils for BioLogos, Sinai and Synapses, the Oxford Interfaith Forum, and the AAAS’s Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.
Guests:
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Baylor College of Medicine. His research spans AI in healthcare and medicine, personality emulation, and the social and ethical implications of emerging AI technologies. He has more than a decade of industry experience building and deploying AI systems in healthcare. Previously he has research and faculty appointments at the University of Washington.
Yuriko Ryan is a bioethicist-gerontologist with over 20 years of international experience in healthcare ethics and policy research. Based in Vancouver, Canada, she holds a Doctorate in Bioethics from Loyola University of Chicago and is a certified Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HEC-C). She is a contributing writer and member of the AI and Faith Editorial Board. Writing on AI Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Business Ethics, and Healthcare Ethics.
Views and opinions expressed by podcast guests are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the view of AI and Faith or any of its leadership.
Meet the team:
Production: Penny Yuen
Host: Greg Cootsona
Guests: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Yuriko Ryan
Editing: Isabelle Braconnot
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