Ep. 5: Bart de Witte on Open Innovation, Healthcare AI and the Narrative for the Future

Niklas talks with Bart de Witte, Founder of Hippo AI, a non-profit that fights for making medical knowledge openly available and AI-based healthcare a common good.

Hippo AI, for example, aggregates and cleans datasets from individual and institutional data donations. This means making data available without reward for open-source usage that benefits communities or society at large, such as the use of breast-cancer data to improve global access to breast cancer diagnostics.

Bart and Niklas start by talking about barriers to open innovation, the lack of a sharing culture ("not invented here"), bad incentives and intellectual property (IP) law.

Bart highlights the need for a narrative for the future of healthcare: how market vs. government-driven will healthcare be? How much, if any, inequality can we tolerate? Who has a right to make profit on top of "our" data, and should AI models be public?

Bart and Niklas have an intense debate about these questions. While they do have different views on how to get there, for example on the role of government in regulating the data economy and AI, Niklas and Bart agree fundamentally on the need for an open source culture to unleash the needed innovation to improve lives.

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