Hello,

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is now quickly transforming our approach to most industries—from media to communications, and from healthcare to transportation. Words like ChatGPT, prompting, and Generative AI have now become part of everyday lexicon for many.

However, where many see opportunities, as a journalist, I am trained to look for the potential pitfalls:

How reliable and trustworthy is AI?

Does AI serve everybody, or are some sections of society excluded?

Who will be held responsible for the mistakes AI makes?

And these are not concerns borne in a vacuum—for instance, Amazon had to scrap its AI-enabled recruitment tool after it recommended only men for jobs, healthcare algorithms were seen to be biased against Black patients in the US, and more recently the Make America Healthy Again report by a federal advisory committee listed citations that did not even exist.

That is exactly why we spent some time discussing these questions, and pondering over solutions, during my session on ‘How to use AI responsibly’, at the ADiRA training workshop held in June.

AI for Digital Readiness & Advancement (ADiRA) is a forward-thinking project led by DataLEADS with the goal of equipping healthcare professionals across India with the foundational and practical AI skills to make significant forays in improving the healthcare industry, and is supported by AI Opportunity Fund: Asia Pacific by AVPN (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network), Asian Development Bank and Google.Org.

The in person training session of the first cohort of trainers were held in June in Delhi, and covered the basics of AI, what it is, LLMs and prompt engineering, the different GenAI tools and its applications, and the question of ethics in AI and how to use it responsibly.

A round of virtual training sessions for the next cohort of trainers is scheduled for July 22-26, 2025, with 2 hour sessions each day. You can register here, to be a part of this group of trainers.

If you are a healthcare professional, or a media professional, who wants to learn about AI and how to use it effectively and responsibly in your daily workflows, and want to train others as well, sign up today to become an AI trainer!

As always, I am also happy to hear from you!