Summary.
In this episode of the PLUGS podcast, Mike Astion interviews Dr. Geoff Baird about AI in the Lab. Over the last year, Geoff and a few other University of Washington faculty members have been intensely studying and implementing AI in daily work. Geoff is on a quest to integrate AI into the UW Dept of Laboratory and Pathology. In this podcast, we discuss key aspects of this work. We first focus on some practical uses of AI that will resonate with PLUGS members. Then, Geoff ventures into applications that can significantly change the way we work.

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Learning Objectives:

1. List three common tasks in laboratory stewardship that can be performed with AI.

2. Compare and contrast basic AI that uses prompts to help with repetitive tasks and agentic AI, which can do complex tasks.

3. Name a barrier to the implementation of AI in the clinical lab.

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