Category Science and Technology

Reconciliation, Not Confrontation: Notes from a Cancer Journey

Sarojini Nadimpally relates some lessons from her experiences of living with cancer.

Lost in Translation? How AI Language Tools are Reshaping Access to Care

Alia Busuttil examines the ethical trade-offs clinicians make when they invite AI into the circle of care as translators.

Empathy-Simulating Chatbots: A Double-Edged Sword in Mental Health Care

Vanita Fernandes warns that the use of empathy-simulating chatbots in mental health care poses ethical concerns including the risk of deception.

The History of Eugenics and Contemporary Debates over Human Enhancement

Heloise Robinson announces a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry on the role of the history of eugenics within contemporary debates over human enhancement.

When AI Rents Humans: A Warning for Healthcare

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a series of gig-economy transactions directed by algorithms.