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Course Description
FIMS 9331
Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Course Description
This course will provide students with the opportunity to examine the ways artificial intelligence and digital automation technologies are shaping the practices, discourses, and imagined futures of human health and well-being. Through an interdisciplinary focus on AI’s applications in areas such as clinical practice, genetic research, and mental health diagnosis, the course will provide students with a rich understanding of AI systems’ technical affordances, social impacts, and role in debates about the future of human health and healthcare in Canada and around the world.
0.5 courseOpen to all HIS, LIS PhD, and all Media Studies students.