About Speaker

Dr Róisín McNaney is a cross-disciplinary digital health researcher at the intersection of healthcare and computer science. Her expertise is in co-design with health communities, to design digital technologies and services to support their needs, and the application of new and emerging technologies in health and care settings. She has a particular interest in brain and mental health. Róisín is the director of the CSIRO Next Generation of Graduates in AI in Mental Health program, which is exploring applications for AI in supporting the delivery of mental health services. The mission of this postgraduate research program is to address real world industry problems and enhance the provision of mental health support in Australia and beyond.

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About Presentation

Title: Health and wellbeing challenges and opportunities for off-the-shelf generative AI systems

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Our everyday lives are full of AI powered innovations. Images and videos can be instantly filtered on social media, AI personal trainers and personalised meal plans have revolutionised health and fitness apps, chatbots that can naturally engage with users about concerns, and tools like chatGPT, which have reduced administrative and cognitive load across a range of tasks. However, there are a number of unintended consequences that these innovations can bring for mental health and wellbeing (e.g. the separation of reality and hyper-idealised imagery, a lack of cultural contextualisation and harmful behavior identification, hallucinations around health information, and inherent biases and stereotypes within large language model outputs). This talk will explore these challenges and impacts within the mental health domain, as well as highlighting key opportunities for considered, ethical and trustworthy solutions that can drive future research through responsible innovation.

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