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3 Jul 2020
We are proud to announce that Alpha Health is now part of the @EITHealth network of 150 leading public and private technology and health partner organizations, and are looking forward to creating impactful collaborations to deliver innovation for the health of society at large.
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17 Jun 2020
Last week @olliewsmith, Alpha Health’s Strategy Director and Head of Ethics, joined a panel at @cognition_x to discuss the potential of privacy-preserving machine learning. Read the full write up in @FortuneMagazine here: fortune.com/2020/06/16/priva…
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10 Jun 2020
Our Research team is conducting a survey to understand how smartphones influence mood and happiness in certain situations. We’d appreciate your participation in the survey, as it can help us create a new digital intervention that improves mental health! alphahealth.typeform.com/to/…

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27 Apr 2020
How can ethical technology help ease the immense burden on frontline NHS staff? In our latest blog, Alpha Health’s CEO @ollieharrison shares his thoughts alpha.company/delivering-hig…
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14 Feb 2020
What happens when right meets right? In his latest blog @olliewsmith shares how Alpha Health dealt with a clash of ethical principles alpha.company/clash-of-the-p…
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5 Feb 2020
.@jeublanc launches our challenge, Healthcare Ethics in the AI Revolution, at @IntHealthAI with @olliewsmith and Johnathon Gibbs #IHUK20
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Back from lunch and ready to get going is Dr. Tarek Besold, Oliver Smith and Jonathan Gibbs discussing Healthcare ethics in the AI revolution in our 6th Challenge of the day over in Suite 14! #IHUK20
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5 Feb 2020
Today we're at @IntHealthAI #IHUK20@olliewsmith will be on the mainstage at 12pm, before later joining @jeublanc and Johnathon Gibbs at 13:40 to launch our challenge, which explores ethics in healthcare. london.intelligenthealth.ai/
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31 Jan 2020
If you're heading to @IntelHealthAI next Wednesday, don't miss @olliewsmith on the Main Stage at 12:00, and @jeublanc on the Challenge Stage after lunch! #IHUK20
In our final interview before the big day, we spoke to some of the brains behind @TeamAtAlpha. Ollie Smith & Tarek Besold share their thoughts on AI in health ahead of their presentation and challenge session: hubs.ly/H0mQzwH0
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@jeublanc sharing with us more information on @TeamAtAlpha. Their work focuses ambitious, high stakes projects that focus on people’s health in its entirety. #DCMH20
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@TeamAtAlpha focus on four pillars of solving the digital mental health challenge #DCMH20
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22 Jan 2020
We agree with @sundarpichai that AI regulation has a role to play in ensuring that AI is developed responsibly, and it should be approached collaboratively and internationally ft.com/content/3467659a-386d…
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21 Jan 2020
We are delighted to announce that we are hosting the 2020 Digital Child Mental Health conference in Barcelona on 27.01. The goal is to improve child & adolescent mental health. More info here dcmh.co.uk/

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15 Jan 2020
In his latest blog, Alpha Health’s Head of Ethics, @olliewsmith, outlines our core ethical principles and what they mean in practice alpha.company/intro-to-our-e…
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"We’re falling into a trap of ethics-washing, where genuine action gets replaced by superficial promises” - spot-on analysis in @_KarenHao's piece for @techreview: technologyreview.com/s/61499…
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18 Dec 2019
How do we innovate for long-term sustainability? Develop technology ethically. Wise words from Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co: techuk.org/insights/opinions…

16 Dec 2019
Great report from @AINowInstitute reviewing AI developments in 2019 & providing recommendations for the industry in 2020. A must-read for anyone working in AI: ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_20…

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Great point here. There is no such thing as values-free code
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