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January 2025 Meeting Minutes

Agenda:

 

  • Meeting minute approval
  • Educational subcommittee - Dr. Fenton 
  • Ensuring Nondiscrimination in the Use of AI - Christina Solis
  • AI Hub update - Dr. Jiang / Dustan Brennan
  • Collection of questions from council about upcoming legislation for governmental affairs
  • Open Discussion. 

 

Actions and Decisions

 

  • Mary Dickerson moved to approve the minutes and Dr. Susan Fenton seconded.
  • Fenton mentioned that will the help of Richard Halpin we will distribute the AI survey this week. Changed some wording awaiting some last-minute edits. Additionally, UT Southwestern is interested on the survey and collaborating as well.
  • The survey will be widely distributed and working with public affairs to send it out.
  • Christina Solis commented that in her presentation last week people were asking if surveys were asking about AI usages at institutions.
  • The survey will be open until 2/19/25.
  • Christina presented on nondiscrimination and AI:
    • If AI is used in healthcare, there will be a need to assess it for discrimination.
    • She recommended we create policies for review and what to do if we find discrimination.
    • She also recommends creating a workgroup for writing these policies.
    • The policy is archived on the HHS website, but she still recommends creating the group.
  • GQ Zhang recommends waiting until the HHS is fully staffed and back going until we create the group.
    • This will be a follow up item in next month’s meeting.
  • Dustan gave a walkthrough of the AI Hub updates:
    • We will add an FAQ for data usage.
    • We will put the hub up for a vote in the next meeting.
    • Weaver wants to add AI in IP course under the educational page.
      • Jiang asked Dr. Weaver to supply some guidelines for IP
    • Dustan will send Mary the link to the prototype see where we can add security.
  • GQ Zhang spoke on Deepseek and its implications:
    • Has the ability to be disruptive, he tested it and it had good reasoning and much more impressive than GPT.
    • He feels it will change the paradigm on cost and fine tuning.
    • He suggested the University may not want to highlight specific collaborations to avoid looking like as though we are biased toward one foundation model.
    • Bassel Choucair mentioned that he wonders if this will make the list of prohibited software.
    • Xiaoqian Jiang feels as though o1 still outperforms DeepSeek, but its approaching parity.
  • Yen-Chi Le brought up two scenarios that she wanted the AI council perhaps to weigh in on. The main one was about a contract with a company using AI for patients’ mental health and how the disclosures and tools should be distributed.
    • Valerie Bomben is working on guidelines for types of data and their usage with third parties that she will bring to a future meeting.
  • Fenton presented the flyer for the AI survey, Dr. Weaver suggested the logo get updated before sending out.