In Episode 3 of Two Tokens Short, Mitchell Newberger and Robert De La Rosa dive into the intersection of AI, healthcare, and fairness with Alaa Youssef, Chief AI Officer at Basys.ai.

Alaa shares her journey from big data research at the University of Toronto to hands-on AI engineering at Stanford, and now leading AI deployment at Basys.ai. Along the way, she explains why healthcare algorithms are uniquely complex, why reasoning and context matter more than raw outputs, and how equity and bias must be addressed in every step of the pipeline.

We explore:

• ​The challenges of embedding AI into healthcare systems with limited infrastructure
• ​Why medical data is harder to standardize and why hallucination is so risky in clinical contexts
• ​The balance between human oversight vs. automation in patient care
• ​Ensuring fairness for underrepresented groups and patients in need
• ​How the next generation of AI researchers and interns are shaping a more equitable future

From policy hurdles to technical safeguards, Alaa makes it clear: AI can transform healthcare — but only if it’s deployed responsibly, with humans in the loop.

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