Coronavirus: The Whole Story - Can AI save us?

Could AI have predicted the pandemic? How is it helping the health care system? Recent 'Test and Trace' programmes have raised growing concerns over data protection and privacy in the wake of the global pandemic. Find out how AI helping us navigate the gradual return to normal life and explore with us how the pandemic has changed how we should use AI in the future. Join writer, broadcaster and UCL alumna, Vivienne Parry, as we return this week with Prof Kate Jones (Chair of Ecology & Biodiversity, Division of Biosciences), Dr Michael Veale (Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation, Laws) and Dr Ali Parsa (Alumnus & CEO of Babylon). Special thanks to our Guest Editor, Prof Geraint Rees, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences. If you would like to take part in a future episode, or if you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on [email protected] – we’d love to hear from you. More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-18