I had my conference the same day our digital essay proposal was due, so I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. I explained how I had come across a lot about trust when researching about artificial intelligence in medicine, so we talked about making this my focus for the essay. This would entail looking at different sources to compare the opinions of multiple physicians regarding whether they trust the use of AI in their own practices. In addition to examining the opinions of those that are or would be using this machine learning software, I talked to you about how I also wanted to look at what would have to be done to ensure AI could be safely used with patients and receive the trust needed by physicians. We talked about the specific perspective I wanted to take and concluded that I would look at the overall topic of AI from the physician’s view rather than the patient’s view. This enables me to make a very broad topic more specific, and this interests me specifically since I hope to be working in the medical field in the near future. In regard to the visual aspect of the digital essay, I was unsure what to do but we talked about doing a text analysis and potentially using words associated with “trust” to compare different sources. The end product would be multiple word clouds that a viewer would be able to easily compare. Overall, you thought I had a good plan and didn’t think I needed to make any major changes to my proposal.
