AI in Healthcare, Digital Colonialism, Product Leaders and Asking Questions
Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI in Healthcare
🛜 Digital Colonialism
🪲 Amazon Agents
👀 Product Vision
👨💼 Product Leaders
❓ Questions for Family
Podcast
Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.
News and Useful Reads
Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
Major AI companies are taking everything on the internet, from writing to artwork, and claiming it as their own “training data.” But should it be that way?
What’s happening with AI is a kind of “digital colonialism”, in which powerful (mostly Western) tech giants are using algorithms, data and digital technologies to exert power over others, and take data without consent.
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
We continue to see the rise of AI agents, especially in coding and development. Amazon will publish details about the agents it’s using to find bugs and vulnerabilities.
On Monday, Amazon will publish details for the first time of an internal system known as Autonomous Threat Analysis (ATA), which the company has been using to help its security teams proactively identify weaknesses in its platforms, perform variant analysis to quickly search for other, similar flaws, and then develop remediations and detection capabilities to plug holes before attackers find them.
5 Product Vision Mistakes You Should Avoid
Most companies I have worked for or worked with lack a good product vision. It has almost always been something I’ve worked to address early on, but can be difficult if you don’t know what a good vision should be.
For a product vision to be effective, it is best captured by a simple, easy-to-understand statement or slogan. For example, the vision for a presentation tool like Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides might be “inform and inspire people.”
8 Habits of Highly Effective Product Leaders
Good product leaders have to balance their focus on the team, the product, and the users. But a good leader will multiply their effectiveness by helping their team.
Having the world’s best strategy, or tier 1 product sense, means nothing if you can’t get the best out of your team to execute on it.
Other Interesting Finds
The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should
Over the past few years, I’ve made a point of learning much more about the older members of my family. I have always known some of the highlights, but didn’t know as much about the day-to-day. If you’re the same, you may want to take time over the holidays to ask some more questions.
Our elders may share some familiar anecdotes over and over again, but still, many of us have no broader sense of the world they lived in, and especially what it was like before we came along.