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179: How I Use PRIVATE Data ETHICALLY In the New Era of AI

Oct 1, 2025
Organizations face a tough choice in AI: compromise on privacy or performance. Discover a third option that balances both! Listen in as a staged leaked Zoom debate reveals the ethical dilemmas of using patient data. Learn about sensitive data discovery and how data synthesis can replace sensitive information with realistic, artificial data. Explore the power of Tonic Textual to efficiently process and anonymize doctor notes, enabling innovative uses without compromising privacy.
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INSIGHT

The False Binary In AI Development

  • Companies face a binary trade-off between privacy-safe but weak AI and powerful but privacy-breaking AI.
  • There exists a third option that lets firms avoid that ethical compromise.
ANECDOTE

Leaked Zoom: AI Doctor Debate

  • Avery Smith shares a leaked internal Zoom from 'Avery Smith Health Solutions' debating why they don't have an AI doctor.
  • The meeting highlights legal concerns vs. engineers wanting to use patient records to build models.
ADVICE

Discover Then Synthesize Sensitive Data

  • First, run sensitive data discovery to automatically find and catalog confidential information across datasets.
  • Then perform data synthesis to generate realistic artificial replacements for the sensitive data.
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