AI - The Good, the Bad and the Useful! , by Professor Alan Gillies

AI - The Good, the Bad and the Useful!, by Professor Alan Gillies,
FBCS CITP FAHE MA(Oxon) PhD
Professor of Health Care Management, IU (DE)
Honorary Professor of Health Informatics, UCLAN (UK)
Doctor Honoris Causa, UMF Cluj (RO)

Abstract
The talk will start with an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of AI showing how far it has come, and in some cases, not come, since the 1980s. it will use this as a foundation to discuss modern practical applications of AI with examples from human resource management, healthcare and education amongst others, drawing on the speaker’s own experiences. The talk will seek to address the following five questions:
•     What makes a good application for AI?
•     What are the ethical issues around deploying AI?
•     What are the benefits to businesses deploying AI?
•     What are the risks to businesses deploying AI?
•     How can we manage the deployment of AI?

Biography
Alan Gillies graduated in Chemistry from The Queens College Oxford in 1984 and followed this with a PhD back in Lancashire in Computer Science. During that PhD, he started working with AI, published his first article dealing with its applications in 1987, and his first book on the subject in 1991. He was Professor of Information Management at UCLAN from 1994 to 2010, during which time he pioneered their first Masters programme delivered online, and it is still running today. Since 2010, he has run his own business working with a wide range of organisations from the World Bank and national Governments to small businesses and charities, the latter often through the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce. Since 2022, he has held a part-time professorship with the International University of Applied Sciences, Europe’s largest provider of higher education, and an acknowledged leader in applying AI in the sector. Alan continues to use AI tools in his University work and in his private work.