AIMC Topic: Personal Autonomy

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Should we have a right to refuse diagnostics and treatment planning by artificial intelligence?

Medicine, health care, and philosophy
Should we be allowed to refuse any involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in diagnosis and treatment planning? This is the relevant question posed by Ploug and Holm in a recent article in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. In this ...

Artificial Intelligence in Service of Human Needs: Pragmatic First Steps Toward an Ethics for Semi-Autonomous Agents.

AJOB neuroscience
The ethics of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) typically centers on "giving ethics" to as-yet imaginary AI with human-levels of autonomy in order to protect us from their potentially destructive power. It is often assumed that to do that, we s...

[The robotic assistance system.].

Recenti progressi in medicina
The aging of the population is a reality common to the entire Western world, while the time available and human resources are limited. According to many experts, the new robotic technologies could help meet the care needs of the elderly, at home and ...

Healing Relationships.

The Hastings Center report
In a 2015 Hastings Center Report essay, Robert Truog and his coauthors argued that the clinical ethics portion of medical education should cast both a wider and a finer net than is sometimes realized. Many of the morally important moments in patient ...

Fusing autonomy and sociality via embodied emergence and development of behaviour and cognition from fetal period.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Human-centred AI/Robotics are quickly becoming important. Their core claim is that AI systems or robots must be designed and work for the benefits of humans with no harm or uneasiness. It essentially requires the realization of autonomy, sociality an...

Robot Lies in Health Care: When Is Deception Morally Permissible?

Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Autonomous robots are increasingly interacting with users who have limited knowledge of robotics and are likely to have an erroneous mental model of the robot's workings, capabilities, and internal structure. The robot's real capabilities may diverge...