5 Topic Commentaries

Maintaining Trust in AI-Assisted Dental Communications

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  Hawazin W. Elani, BDS, PhD, MMSc

  Associate Professor, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology

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  Harvard School of Dental Medicine

  The first rule is to do no harm. If we as a profession don’t consider algorithmic bias and fairness, we will cause unintentional harm.

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  Fernanda Viégas, PhD

  Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science; Principal Scientist, Google

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  Harvard University

  Everything doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be transparent.

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  Rena N. D’Souza, DDS, PhD

  Director

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  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH

  share data, communicate, and work together to find solutions that are based on the patients’ needs

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  Tinglong Dai, PhD

  Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business

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  Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

  There should be prompt and proper disclosure that the doctor is using AI to write the notes in order to maintain trust with the patient.

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  Manisha J. Loss, MD

  Associate Chief Medical Information Officer; Associate Professor of Dermatology

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  We need to make sure we have transparency in understanding how these models generate their responses.

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