The Ethics of AI In Healthcare

Father Paolo Benanti is an expert in ethics, digital ethics, and technology. He is a Franciscan monk and Professor of Moral Theology, Bioethics, and Neuroethics at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome. I discuss with Father Benanti the controversial aspects of AI in healthcare and how the digital transformation changes us – human beings. Father Benanti, two years ago, there was a morally ambiguous case in the USA – a doctor used a virtual presence system to tell a patient he would die. With the broad adoption of telemedicine and medical workforce shortages, this practice may become an everyday reality. From the beginning of human history, we have understood medicine as a scientific discipline. There was a time when a priest and doctor was the same person. We've always picked up someone special from the human community to hold the position of a doctor.