Senior Project Advisor
Tognazzini, Neal A.
Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Keywords
AI, Technology, medicine, robots, ethics
Abstract
What do we do when the doctor of the future may not be human? In order to assess the full effect of trying to replace human caregivers with AI machines, we must investigate the types of ethics that these machines would work under—implicit, explicit, and full. The type of AI that movies present us with are fully ethical AI; they have a sense of self. The possible implementation of AI in medicine forces us to confront not just new technology, but also the definition of consciousness and free will, so I advise that for now we just stick to implicit and explicitly ethical agents in medicine.
Department
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Egnew, Halley, "Robodoc: Ethics of AI in Medicine" (2019). WWU Honors College Senior Projects. 135.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/135
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Artificial intelligence--Medical applications; Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics--Technological innovations
Genre/Form
student projects; term papers
Type
Text
Rights
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf