High school students from eight Hawaiʻi schools spent two weeks at UH Mānoa this summer building Parrot Forms, an AI system that transcribes doctor and patient conversations, pulls out the relevant medical details, and fills in mock electronic medical records on its own.

The problem they chose is a real one. Documentation eats a large share of a clinician’s day, and time spent on paperwork is time not spent with patients.

I led the course, which ran through Project Hōkūlani in UH Mānoa’s Center on Disability Studies with Hye Jin Park as principal investigator. Our lab provided the compute and the tooling the students worked on.

Getting students into hands-on work with real AI systems this early, on a problem they picked because it mattered to them, is some of the most rewarding teaching I do.