Chile’s PUC convenes global webinar on AI, health and misinformation

On its face, a regional news item about a university webinar might seem minor compared to billion‑dollar funding rounds and data center MOUs. But the Pontificia Universidad Católica’s event on AI, health and misinformation is a good snapshot of how quickly frontline practitioners are trying to digest the social implications of increasingly capable AI systems. The speakers span Israel, the U.S. and Chile, and the focus is not model architecture; it’s how algorithms reshape patient communication, trust and vulnerability in healthcare systems already under stress.([noticiaslosrios.cl](https://www.noticiaslosrios.cl/2026/01/15/medico-paillaquino-moderara-simposio-internacional-sobre-inteligencia-artificial-y-salud-organizado-por-la-puc/))

For the AGI race, these kinds of forums matter because they shape the “soft infrastructure” around deployment: norms, expectations, and the informal red lines clinicians and communicators adopt long before formal regulation catches up. If health professionals decide, for example, that opaque, closed models are unacceptable in certain settings, that will feed back into demand for more interpretable or at least auditable systems. Conversely, if they embrace AI‑mediated communication tools, that could lock in new dependencies on large vendors. Either way, the debates happening in Spanish and Portuguese across Latin America will influence how future AGI-class systems are received outside the traditional North Atlantic policy bubble.