Guest lecture Wednesday March 12th, 2025: Associate professor Sandra Anna Just, Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT

This talk is open to all.

The lecture will be held in person at Tabletten (F1.101 - Pharmacy-building), but for those of you who can’t attend it physically the lecture will also be streamed (see url below).

Professional (academic) contact person is Professor Lars Ailo Bongo.

Target group: Bachelor, master, PhD students, employees at CS Department and external from other departments / industry

Welcome!

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Date: Wednesday March 12th, 2025, at 10:15 - 11:00
Place: Tabletten (F1.101)
Url stremaing: https://uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=95ec547f-3284-4aa6-aaf2-b29000a1f63b
Title: " Critical psychiatry in the age of AI "
Lecturer: Associate professor Sandra Anna Just, Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT

Abstract
As AI and technology become more integrated into psychiatry, clinicians and researchers face new ethical challenges and responsibilities. This lecture explores what it means to practice critical psychiatry today, focusing on the intersection of psychiatry, philosophy, and technology. Focusing on her research on NLP in psychosis, Sandra Just will examine where AI-based tools can be useful and where they might do harm. She will also share insights from her research on other vulnerable groups and broader ethical issues in psychiatry, such as stigmatization and ethical conflicts, and discuss why transparency, accountability, and critical thinking are more important than ever in the field.

Bio
In February 2025, Sandra Just started a new position as Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at UiT. She is also an affiliated researcher at Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on natural language processing, psychosis, and mental illness across the life span. In the last ten years, she worked as a clinical psychologist at Charité Berlin and co-lead the research group Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Sandra Just has studied Psychology (B.Sc.), Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology (M.Sc.) and Philosophy of Mental Disorder (M.Sc.), at University of Göttingen, Freie University Berlin and King’s College London. She is also a licensed psychotherapist (CBT). Her doctoral dissertation at Charité was on the subject „Correlates of successful interpersonality in non-affective psychosis“.

Kortnytt fra Institutt for informatikk

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