CidadanIA Meeting (USC-Plexus Chair in AI Applied to Precision Personalised Medicine)
The Museo das Peregrinacións in Santiago de Compostela will host the CidadanIA Meeting on Wednesday, 17 June, at 19:00. This free public event will combine literature, science communication and debate around the impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare. The meeting will also serve as the venue for the award ceremony and public reading of the winning entries of the 1st 'AI is Health' No-AI Short Story Contest, an initiative that attracted more than 200 submissions in its first edition and encouraged participants to reflect on the relationship between technology, creativity and medicine.
Promoted by the USC-Plexus Chair in AI Applied to Precision Personalised Medicine, the event aims to bring some of the key questions surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare closer to the general public. Through an accessible and participatory format, the programme will explore both the opportunities offered by these technologies and the challenges they raise from scientific, social and humanistic perspectives.
Following the reading of the award-winning stories, Fernando Eiras Abalde, Intensive Care Medicine specialist at SERGAS and coordinator of the CIES-CRIT research group at the Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur), will deliver the talk 'AI and Healthcare: Who Hallucinates More?'. Drawing on a series of clinical case studies, the session will examine the growing role of AI systems in healthcare practice and the challenges associated with their use in contexts where accuracy, trust and decision-making are critical.
The talk will be followed by the panel discussion 'Human or Machine? A New Medicine', an open forum combining audience participation with contributions from a multidisciplinary group of experts. The discussion will be moderated by Belén Xestal, Director of Communication, Marketing and Institutional Relations at Plexus Tech, and will feature Alejandra Ulla, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela; José Ramón González Juanatey, Professor of Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Patricia Martín Rodilla, Senior Research Scientist in Digital Humanities within the Society Area of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); and Fernando Eiras Abalde.
The debate will address issues such as the relationship between artificial intelligence and professional judgement, the current limitations of these technologies, their impact on interactions between patients and healthcare professionals, and the ethical and social challenges associated with their deployment.
The Museo das Peregrinacións in Santiago de Compostela will host the CidadanIA Meeting on Wednesday, 17 June, at 19:00. This free public event will combine literature, science communication and debate around the impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare. The meeting will also serve as the venue for the award ceremony and public reading of the winning entries of the 1st 'AI is Health' No-AI Short Story Contest, an initiative that attracted more than 200 submissions in its first edition and encouraged participants to reflect on the relationship between technology, creativity and medicine.
Promoted by the USC-Plexus Chair in AI Applied to Precision Personalised Medicine, the event aims to bring some of the key questions surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare closer to the general public. Through an accessible and participatory format, the programme will explore both the opportunities offered by these technologies and the challenges they raise from scientific, social and humanistic perspectives.
Following the reading of the award-winning stories, Fernando Eiras Abalde, Intensive Care Medicine specialist at SERGAS and coordinator of the CIES-CRIT research group at the Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur), will deliver the talk 'AI and Healthcare: Who Hallucinates More?'. Drawing on a series of clinical case studies, the session will examine the growing role of AI systems in healthcare practice and the challenges associated with their use in contexts where accuracy, trust and decision-making are critical.
The talk will be followed by the panel discussion 'Human or Machine? A New Medicine', an open forum combining audience participation with contributions from a multidisciplinary group of experts. The discussion will be moderated by Belén Xestal, Director of Communication, Marketing and Institutional Relations at Plexus Tech, and will feature Alejandra Ulla, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela; José Ramón González Juanatey, Professor of Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Patricia Martín Rodilla, Senior Research Scientist in Digital Humanities within the Society Area of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); and Fernando Eiras Abalde.
The debate will address issues such as the relationship between artificial intelligence and professional judgement, the current limitations of these technologies, their impact on interactions between patients and healthcare professionals, and the ethical and social challenges associated with their deployment.
On-site event
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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