“How Do You Safely Manage Your Privacy When Using AI for Your Cancer Care?"

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Wondering how to keep your privacy safe while using AI tools for cancer care? This casual online event dives into practical tips and smart strategies to protect your personal info without missing out on the benefits of AI. Perfect for anyone curious about health tech and privacy!

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As more cancer patients turn to AI tools to help them understand their disease, interpret test results, and navigate treatment options, risks that were less obvious when these tools first appeared are becoming increasingly clear as patients and caregivers lean on them more heavily. Using AI for healthcare guidance introduces significant privacy and security vulnerabilities—including large-scale data breaches, re-identification of “anonymized” data, cyberattack risks, and biased or inaccurate medical suggestions. Patients and caregivers also face challenges such as hallucinations, misinformation traps, and a lesser-known risk: AI’s tendency to be sycophantic, mirroring a patient’s fears or assumptions rather than staying objective. Deep-fake images and videos add another layer of risk, as AI can now generate highly convincing but false medical or personal content.

To use AI safely, patients need AI literacy: an understanding of both the benefits and limitations of these tools, and practical strategies to reduce risks. This includes learning how to guide AI systems to stay neutral, evidence-based, and not act as emotional validators. And while vigilance significantly reduces risk, complete privacy is increasingly difficult in a world where AI evolves rapidly and where most people’s personal or medical information has already been shared—knowingly or not—through email providers, search engines, and social media. Being aware of how and when you share information is essential if privacy matters to you. AI tools like ChatGPT are quickly becoming the new “Dr. Google”—helping patients interpret medical jargon, understand biology, explore treatment options, and prepare questions for their care teams. But few people have experience using these systems responsibly in a medical context. Knowing how to protect yourself while benefiting from AI is essential.

Ari Akerstein, Dina Blikshteyn, and Brad Power are uniquely qualified to lead a discussion about the risks and countermeasures you can take in using AI tools for your healthcare guidance. Ari Akerstein is the co-founder and CEO of Navis Health AI, the trusted navigation layer for cancer care. Dina Blikshteyn is a lawyer in the intellectual property practice group in the New York office of Haynes Boone, where she is co-chair of the artificial intelligence practice and regularly speaks and writes on various AI topics. Brad Power is the co-founder and CEO of the Cancer Patient Lab, and has co-authored an article on "The Most Disruptive Near-Term Use of AI in Cancer Care: Patient Empowerment through Software Agents".Please join this session to share your experiences and concerns in using AI in navigating your cancer care, such as:

• What do you need to know before using AI tools—and the potential harms you may face?
• How concerned should you be? Where do you fit on a spectrum of risk and return?
• What are the laws and regulations (or lack thereof) at US state and federal levels (e.g., HIPAA) and internationally (e.g., GDPR) that govern AI tools?
• What countermeasures can you take to mitigate privacy, accuracy, and security risks?
• How do you guide AI to remain objective and neutral rather than emotionally aligned with you?
• How can you learn more about the privacy and security issues of using AI tools?
• How is your data protected (or not) with consumer apps?
• What are your rights (e.g., data access) regarding HIPAA-protected data?