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Just finished a really fun session with our Primary Compassionate Care team on AI foundations and health applications. We covered the basics of how AI works, where it is already showing up in healthcare, and some of the risks around bias and fabricated outputs. And yes, we played “Name That AI Bias!” 😆

What I appreciated most, and always do, was the discussion we had around the use of AI within the healthcare and academic settings. The participants talked about the need to be disciplined in how we use AI, not just because the technology can be wrong, but because it is very easy to become overly reliant on the tool. We also described some of the advantages in using AI in the healthcare setting such as addressing the reams of paperwork.

They also raised an important point about culture. AI may be useful, but that doesn’t mean every patient or community will be comfortable with it being part of their care. We need to think about trust, communication, context, and whether the use of AI actually fits the person in front of us. Dr. Aisha Liman reinforced the need to be transparent with patients and to openly discuss any concerns a patient may raise about AI use.

For me, that is where these conversations get much more interesting and I find we actually learn more in the dialogue. As our knowledge and use of the technology continue to grow, so should the questions we ask of it and our attention to how it may be shifting the dynamic of care.

I’ve attached a few slides below on evaluating and adopting AI tools within the healthcare setting and an interesting article on the ethical oversight of AI in Nigerian healthcare. There are incredible opportunities in this area, especially in designing a regulatory framework that can standardize and guide us all on AI use.

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” ~ Stephen Hawking (BBC Interview, 2014)

I love Hawking…but why are we reducing humans to some kind of computational output? I feel like we’re more than that. Except for mathematicians (be honest).

And what are we competing with AI over? Jobs? Partners? Attention? Competency? Expertise?

And why are AI companies, and those in the tech industry, positioning AI as a “us” vs. “them” contest in nearly every video, blurb, and tweet? If I see another Boston Dynamics clip…I swear. There’s only one Bruce Lee. Hard stop.

Will AI outperform us? Maybe the mediocre and maybe that’s okay. Maybe that will drive humans to challenge their own limitations and take it up a notch. But if you take someone like Dolly Parton, there’s no competition and she never presented herself as such (although there was some exchange in Jolene 😆)…but in thinking about AI, I’ve always perceived it as a tool to help advance the sciences and support human endeavors.

And honestly, maybe our advantage was never going to be about speed as much as it is living to one’s full potential, whatever that looks like. As someone who has competed in sports that involved a great deal of speed, the wipeouts can be harsh and tragic (insert image of a bug hitting a windshield here 😆 ). Our “slow” biological evolution has its advantages and has given us time to pivot on the court, like Kobe, and develop such an array of magnificent skills and talents. Instead of viewing AI as the opposition and competition, we need to focus on what it means to be human and explore this sociotech dynamic in a deeper and more meaningful way.

Having said that, if Claude wants to meet me in the backcountry for a buggy competition, I’m up for it. I know Stephen Hui would have his money on me. 😆

One of the great things about living in British Columbia is having an enormous backyard to explore…so today I took bestselling B.C. author Stephen Hui out to play in it.

Stephen has spent more than 30 years hiking, backpacking, and scrambling through our coastal mountains and has written some of the best-known guides to exploring our corner of the world. So naturally, I decided the appropriate outing was to take the hiking expert off-roading in a buggy for the first time while I channeled my inner Lewis Hamilton. 😆

For anyone who loves exploring B.C., Stephen is the author of three bestselling guidebooks:

📚 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — now in its fully revised 2nd edition: https://105hikes.com/
📚 Destination Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia
📚 Best Hikes and Nature Walks With Kids In and Around Southwestern British Columbia

105 Hikes became a No. 1 B.C. bestseller and, for many people, has become something of a bible for hiking around southwestern British Columbia.

It was great fun spending the day talking about the mountains and trails of British Columbia…and then bouncing around considerably less gracefully through the backcountry.

And for all of Stephen’s fans and followers, he survived his first buggy adventure. 😆

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your next B.C. adventure, check out his books. And Stephen, thanks for being such a good sport!

Over my employment history, I’ve tried to be thoughtful and intentional about the places I’ve chosen to work for and the people I’ve selected to work with.

Roblox, co-founded and led by CEO David Baszucki, is arguing that an eight-year-old gave up her right to take the company to court because she clicked “I agree.”

I’m fairly certain that Mr. Baszucki, a parent himself, is aware that children are not sophisticated contracting parties. Companies cannot build platforms designed to attract children, profit from their participation, and then rely on “Terms of Service” to avoid having serious allegations concerning harm to children examined in open court.

And the case numbers continue to grow. As recently reported:

“Roblox is currently facing 150 cases alleging that children have been harmed as a result of using the software, and the U.S. Senate is now conducting a bipartisan investigation into the company regarding its child safety practices. Over the last couple of years, Roblox has finally begun to implement the most rudimentary attempts to offer any protection at all for children, and tellingly, a recent move to direct fewer young children toward the most viral games on the platform wiped $9 billion from the company’s value in a single day.”

Link: Roblox Claims A Dead Kid ‘Waived All Rights’ Because She Clicked ‘Agree’ At 8 Years Old: https://kotaku.com/roblox-legal-court-case-audree-heine-terms-conditions-dismissal-2000726607

If you can do one thing today, please 🙏 delete your child’s Roblox account.

And if you’re looking for work, please 🙏 scratch Roblox off your list.

Thank you.

And if you want to keep tabs on the cases, see Roblox MDL Case Count History: Tracking a New Federal Docket Without Inflating It: https://settlementadvocate.com/research/roblox-case-count-history

Missing you every single day, Dr. Jones.

Thank you to all that attended my session on “Preparing Future Physicians for Artificial Intelligence” at AHTBE 2026. There were so many fantastic presentations this afternoon on AI and its integration and use in medicine. I think where my heart and mind centred on today was how we define, cultivate, manipulate, and erode epistemic trust. We’ve developed technologies that invite us into a synthetic reality, exhausting human potential and attention as we increasingly expend our energy discerning what is true. Trust is foundational to the delivery of care, and we need to design AI platforms that recognize, protect, and preserve this vital human capacity.

Sharing my presentation here for anyone interested in AI, medical education, and the future of care.

#MedicalEducation #AIinMedicine #ArtificialIntelligence #HealthProfessionsEducation

Our first cohort of interns! I’m speechless at what Dr. Aisha Liman and our Primary Compassionate Care team have done over six years. What began as a commitment to supporting and strengthening the next generation of public health leaders continues to grow in ways I don’t think any of us could have fully imagined in 2020. We were in the midst of battling a pandemic and felt the weight of having to respond in a way that was meaningful, practical, and capable of making a difference in people’s lives.

And now, we welcome our first eight interns.

These eight remarkable individuals are stepping into PCCI with curiosity, purpose, creativity, and a commitment to taking public health to the next level.

I’m incredibly excited to see the ideas they bring, the questions they ask, the communities they serve, and the impact they will make.

A very proud moment for all of us at PCCI…and, I suspect, only the beginning. ❤️

Good morning team! If you have a couple of hours to spare, I highly recommend grabbing a cup of joe and listening to Dr. Andrew Huberman’s recent conversation with Dr. Fei Fei Li on using AI to increase your intelligence and enrich humanity.

They cover a variety of topics describing the evolution of AI, but my favourite segment is on vision and intelligence. AI has significantly progressed over the last few years in visual recognition, image classification, and discrimination (i.e., the ability to distinguish between two highly similar-looking categories).

Many might recall the blueberry muffin vs. chihuahua meme that early models struggled with 🫐 🐶 🫐 . Although it may have been funny then, this has some real-world value now that goes way beyond British Bake Off meets Westminster Kennel Club.

This type of technology has since improved and become instrumental in areas such as dermatology, skin disease diagnosis, and wound assessment and care, particularly for those living in rural and remote areas of the world.

However, those who know me know I like to test. So, late last night I put the Holloway vs McGregor AI models in the ring to examine exactly how far we’ve come. See the results below.

Or maybe the more important question is: did you pass? 😆

OpenAI and Claude: Pass

Open AI response:

Claude response:

Open AI vs. Claude:

Open AI response:

Claude response:

Another reason not to use Claude :).

Books unchained

A great good, and almost a divine benefit to the world.

Jakob Wimpfeling, 1505 — The German humanist, on the new art of printing. A hand-copied book was valuable enough that libraries chained theirs to the reading desks.

Next week, I’m looking forward to presenting at the 2nd International Conference on Advancement in Healthcare Technology and Biomedical Engineering (AHTBE 2026) in Vancouver.

My presentation, “Preparing Future Physicians for Artificial Intelligence: Medical Students’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Educational Needs,” draws on the research I completed at the University of Oxford as part of my MSc dissertation in Translational Health Sciences. My integrative literature review examines how medical students are experiencing AI, what they understand about it, and what they are asking from medical education to prepare for its growing role in healthcare. If this is a topic that interests you, then join me on Friday, August 21, from 13:00–14:30 during Parallel Session 2.

And If you’re attending AHTBE 2026, please come and say hello! I would especially welcome the opportunity to connect with others interested in artificial intelligence in medical education, clinical training, and preparing future physicians to use AI thoughtfully, safely, and effectively.

Looking forward to some great conversations in Vancouver!