16.05. & 27.06.2024 Bonn and Online.
Lecture Series
New Talks in the Lunch Series “Ethics-AI-Health”
Time: 16th May and 27th June 2024
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Organization: Chair of Social Ethics & Ethics of Technology, University Bonn in collaboration with the Transdisclipinary Research Area “Life and Health”, University Bonn and the Collaborative Research Centre EmpkinS
Programme:
30-minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of stimulating discussion and Q&A.
16th May, 12.30-1.30 pm, remote in Bonn and online: “Public Health, Pluralism, and the Telos of Political Virtue” (Kathryn MacKay)
In the ethics of public health, questions of virtue, that is, questions of what it means for public health to act excellently, have received little attention. One reason this omission needs remedy is that delivering public health outcomes can be in tension with goals like respect for the self-determination or non-oppression of different groups, or respecting liberty. A virtue-ethics approach is flexible and well-suited for the kind of deliberation required to resolve or mitigate such tension. Public health requires practically wise and careful thinking, which virtue ethics brings with it. Furthermore, too tight a focus on delivering outcomes in determining how public health should act has, in some cases, actually undermined its ability to achieve those consequences. However, the main concern about incorporating virtue into public health in a pluralistic society is likely to be that virtue is generally teleological, and we would surely need some widely agreed upon idea of something like flourishing or the common for this to work. In this paper, I propose that for public health to express virtue in its work, it must express a commitment to justice as it goes about its business promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of society. Justice is both a contributor toward better health for groups in society, and a worthwhile goal in its own right. I will sketch an argument that justice as non-oppression – not merely health equity – is the right telos toward which public health should aim in a pluralist society.
27th June, 3.00-4.00 pm, online: “AI in Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues” (I. Glenn Cohen)
This talk will focus on the use of artificial intelligence (especially machine learning) in health care and the legal and ethical issues it raises. It will cover, amongst other things: liability, informed consent, privacy, data ownership, explainability, and the update problem in regulating AI in medicine. No prior background in AI, medicine, law, or ethics will be assumed.
Biographies of the speakers and more information: https://www.etf.uni-bonn.de/de/fakultaet/systematische-theologie/systematische-theologie-und-ethik/veranstaltungen/lunch-series
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