Digital Health: Bioethical and Legal Challenges

Disagreements arise between artificial intelligence systems and health professionals in the course of caring for patients. Though there may come a time when such divergences are easily reconcilable or no longer occur, there is a current need for procedures to resolve such differences. In this presentation, models for resolving disagreement between AI systems and health professionals are offered and evaluated. It is argued that structural and other external features of both AI systems and healthcare delivery must be considered in order to understand how best to remedy potential divergences in assessment, judgment, and determinations of health professionals and those systems. The framework articulated is to be applied in a time where much is in flux and so represents work in “transition ethics.” The presentation will rely on research that appears in The Medical Act: Conscientious Practice in a World of Dissention and Disagreement (forthcoming from Springer in 2025).