Medical AI and human dignity: Contrasting perceptions of human and artificially intelligent (AI) decision-making in healthcare
Forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being increasingly deployed into clinical settings. Despite this trajectory, more research is needed regarding the impacts on patients of increasing AI decision making.
The impersonal nature of AI means that its deployment in medical contexts raises issues associated with patients’ perceptions of (un) dignified treatment. We explore this issue through an experimental vignette study comparing individuals’ perceptions of being treated in a dignified and respectful way in various healthcare decision contexts.
Speaker
Associate Professor Paul Formosa, Macquarie University
A/Prof Formosa is the Director of the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) and a member of the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. A/Prof Formosa’s areas of research cover many areas of moral and political philosophy and applied ethics, with a more recent focus on ethical issues surrounding new technologies such as videogames and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is particularly interested in the way that new technologies can make us better or worse people and transform social relations, and he has developed a strong record of interdisciplinary research to explore these issues.
Event Details
- Date:
- 15 June 2022 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- In-person at Caulfield campus, Building H, Level 8, Room H813 and Zoom
- Categories:
- Health Economics; CHE Seminar
Description
Forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being increasingly deployed into clinical settings. Despite this trajectory, more research is needed regarding the impacts on patients of increasing AI decision making.
The impersonal nature of AI means that its deployment in medical contexts raises issues associated with patients’ perceptions of (un) dignified treatment. We explore this issue through an experimental vignette study comparing individuals’ perceptions of being treated in a dignified and respectful way in various healthcare decision contexts.
Speaker
Associate Professor Paul Formosa, Macquarie University
A/Prof Formosa is the Director of the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) and a member of the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. A/Prof Formosa’s areas of research cover many areas of moral and political philosophy and applied ethics, with a more recent focus on ethical issues surrounding new technologies such as videogames and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is particularly interested in the way that new technologies can make us better or worse people and transform social relations, and he has developed a strong record of interdisciplinary research to explore these issues.