Comprehensive Brain Deals To Harness AI for Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Brain Health

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Stanford Frontier Technology Lab hosted a lunch salon at the Donald and Lygia Lucas Hall at Santa Clara University.

The lunch salon centered around lively discussions on "brain deals" to apply funding towards the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry, artificial intelligence (AI), and other emerging technologies, as well as related disciplines to advance brain health. Leaders from medicine, technology, and academia shared their thoughts on questions including:

Will the emergence of generative technologies outmode clinicians? Or will it make clinicians even more effective than before?
What are the dominant trends and applications of AI in mental and brain health that will emerge in the next five years?
How will generative AI and other advanced AI impact the mental and brain health of the population, especially through news media, social media, and workforce disruptions?
What are the biggest barriers for patients and clinicians to adopt emerging technology?
What are the key regulatory and policy considerations around generative AI and mental and brain health?
Are comprehensive brain deals a feasible policy innovation?

The event featured Stanford Frontier Technology Lab’s Steven Chan as a speaker. Dr. Chan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Attendees included entrepreneurs, technologists, policymakers, and investors. Attendees represented institutions such as the California State Mental Health Commission, the Federation of American Scientists, Santa Clara University, the University of California College of the Law San Francisco, UCSF, Stanford University, along with industry groups such as Audacity Therapeutics and Amira Learning.

The event was co-hosted with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the Brain Capital Alliance, the UCSF Dyslexia Center, the Californian Mental Health Commission, and the Brain and Memory Care Lab at Santa Clara University.