Poster
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Workshop: GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust and Policy Compliance
Position: Generative AI policy and governance considerations for health security in Southeast Asia
Thomas F Burns
Keywords: [ generative AI ] [ policy ] [ Southeast Asia ] [ health security ] [ governance ]
Southeast Asia is a geopolitically and socio-economically significant region with unique challenges and opportunities. Intensifying progress in generative AI against a backdrop of existing health security threats makes applications of AI to mitigate such threats attractive but also risky if done without due caution. This paper provides a brief sketch of some of the applications of AI for health security and the regional policy and governance landscape. I focus on policy and governance activities of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an international body whose member states represent 691 million people. I conclude by identifying sustainability as an area of opportunity for policymakers and recommend priority areas for generative AI researchers to make the most impact with their work.