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Contents
Editorial C. Brall
EACME conference 2024 J. Schildmann
Food for thought – Board elections in Halle A. Heijnen
The Empirical Bioethics Winter School: Building methodological capacity in Europe M. Dunn
EACME Collaboration Award F. Ursin, C. Timmermann and T. Żuradzki
Summaries Thesis C. Kröger, N. Kok, K. Hansson
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Editorial
Dear EACME colleagues and friends,
AI has been a hot topic in medical ethics for years, yet the newest technological developments of OpenAI accelerate the speed with which the AI reshapes society and modern medicine in the years to come. While currently new regulations are discussed (in the US) or adopted (in the EU), pressing ethical questions will not cease to be raised, e.g. how will trust between medical doctors and patients be affected by AI? What if medicine becomes dehumanized? How can algorithmic bias and discrimination be avoided? What about privacy if AI needs more and more patient data? And who can be charged if things go wrong? Questions of this kind raise deeper ethical issue and are currently investigated in the emerging ethics of AI. They are also relevant for future legislation regarding AI.
At the University of Bern, we saw that students are not taught about any of these topics – or rather open questions – yet and a course about ethical and legal issues of AI in medicine is lacking. We thus developed such course to make students sensitive to ethical and legal issues surrounding AI in medicine and to empower them to contribute to solutions.
Topics which are taught in an interdisciplinary way by colleagues from philosophy, law and ethics include:
• Trust in AI and humans in medicine
• Privacy and data security
• Care robots
• Transparency of AI solutions
• Algorithmic fairness and biases
• Responsibility & liability
• Human relationships and AI
• Deskilling and unemployment
• Challenges for governance
The course is offered to graduate students in various Master programmes and aims to enable students to understand the broader impact of AI on society and the health care system and be able to critically discuss and evaluate proposed solutions. Does your university offer similar courses or is currently developing one? Looking forward to receiving your feedback and to team up to prepare students for future challenges.
Very best wishes,
Caroline Brall
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