This meeting was not recorded, at the speaker’s request, due to some of the results being unpublished.
This month we welcomed guest speaker Professor Peter Bath from the University of Sheffield, to talk about some of his work using AI in a number of funded projects in the South Yorkshire/Sheffield. He mentioned: The PRIEST study, A study for detecting Alzheimer’s, and a third study focussing on Acute Aortic Syndrome.
Most of the talk revolved around the Pandemic Respiratory Infection Emergency System Triage (PRIEST) study. The work was focussed on evaluating non-human triage scores using data from the Yorkshire ambulance service in the first wave of COVID –These data were linked to Office for National Statistics death registration data, NHS Digital hospital and general practice electronic health care data to determine whether patients had died or received major organ support by 20 days after their initial ambulance service contact.
Peter explained how the team running the PRIEST study evaluated how various data mining and statistical models performed in comparison to actual human decision making with respect to patient outcomes.
Monday 2nd April 2026 was the morning that an AI made the news in the context of Moltbook
Towards the end of the talk Peter referred to Isaac Asimov’s three rules of robotics, as an ethical starting point for our use of AI This paves the way for our next meeting where we’ll explore further AI ethical (leaning into sci-fi) aspects of humans’ direct interactions with AI as the new enlightenment.