Speaker: Prof. Mirko Daniel Garasic
Title: AI and medicine: some ethical issues
Abstract:
Not only AI has entered any segment of our society, but it has also done so with incredible results in many spheres of our lives. Healthcare and medicine are no different of course -and the recent covid-19 pandemic has only stressed further the deep connection between the digital world and the medical one. AI can help us with diagnosis, surgeries and more but there is also a dark side to all the pervasiveness of digital technology in medicine, and abundant ethical supervision is necessary. Are we willing to delegate medical decisions into the hands of AI? Why or why not? In which way should digital divide fit into this new conceptualization of the patient? Why is it ethically relevant? In this talk I will put forward a number of issues concerning the application of AI in medical contexts that deserve attention.
Bio:
Mirko Daniel Garasic is Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at the Department of Educational Sciences, at Roma Tre University. Previously, I thought Bioethics and Digital Ethics at LUISS University. Among other positions, he has been twice a Visiting Professor in Neuroethics at IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights in Rome, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, a Golda Meir Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at Monash University and a Yale University and Hastings Center Visiting Scholar thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship. He is currently working on several projects focused on human enhancement, neuroethics, space ethics, environmental ethics and life extension. Among other venues, his work has been published in BMC Medical Ethics, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy, AJOB Neuroscience and Topoi. His first book Guantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment–A Biopolitical Analysis (Springer, 2015) has been discussed by international scholars in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics and Bioetica. His latest book, in Italian, has just been published: Leviatano 4.0 – Politica delle nuove tecnologie (Luiss University Press, 2022).
