 Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit 2018. I'm delighted to be joined by Mr Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Senior Advisor at the Department of Information, Evidence and Research at the World Health Organization. Sir, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much for your writing. So here we're obviously talking about AI and how it can be used to be a force for good. And in health in your field, how can it help exactly? I think there are lots of applications for AI, applications of AI for advancing public health. You know, our Director General just spoke this morning. Just to give you a sense about the powerfulness of what AI can do if a paraplegic or if a polio patient or a polio person who has been affected by polio cannot walk, could be able to walk one day by using exoskeletons that is programmed to have a human behavior of how to walk so that the person can be lifted up and walked and brought back and the behavior can be learned to the point where the person will have a natural tendency to walk through exoskeleton and the AI mechanism will allow that pattern to be repeated so it will become natural. So that would become an extraordinary power force insofar as what AI can do. That's one specific example. The other specific examples are in an ability for us to forecast diseases for X number of conditions or in case of an emergency to alert and forecast and contain emergencies. We need massive data ingestion and also ability to pattern recognition and normally a statistical computing environment would not be useful in that context. So machine learning processes and pattern recognition by AI using artificial intelligence algorithms will allow us to detect those patterns. That's a very important part. And then also road traffic. Understanding and forecasting road traffic injuries to make sure that it is contained and managed well means that we need to analyze backlog data plus also forecast the pattern of flow of vehicles if you think about that. So AI has application in almost every facet in public health but also we need to understand to make sure AI is not misused. So in a way what we are suggesting is that the very first starting point for countries to have a policy and governance mechanisms for use of AI in public health and starting that umbrella would allow countries to understand what are the places where they can actually manage the use of AI appropriately including clinical care environment for example in decision making. Not leaving the robots in AI to do the medication and prescription there should be some level of oversight but medication and prescription management and so far as rapid identification of key medications for a particularly complex medical manifestation requires doctors to have a groupings and thinking of those as to how to solve the problem but AIs can actually have a set of leads that will allow the doctors to go faster in those areas. As you've mentioned the ethical implications of AI are very important especially in the field of health because we're dealing with patient data aren't we? Absolutely. And that's to be kept safe. Exactly. And I think it's important there you know because if you were to analyse maybe millions of records of patients using an AI and then predicting about the cost that is going to occur or incurred by the patients on the society and then you want to stop treating some of them that would be a bad use of AI. You know you have detected a pattern and then now you're using to misuse the information for your benefit if you will as an entity that is in the management of monies. So we need to really understand that how do you not use AI for a public health and how do you use and I think the starting point of that conversation actually stems in the policy and governance mechanisms and then if you actually construct a very good policy and a good strategy for the countries on where the interventions of AI to the public health and where it should not be and those policy guidance allows the society to begin to develop solutions for very specific aspects. And that's why you're here to discuss this with all the stakeholders attending the summit. Absolutely. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.