Ethics of Artificial Intelligence & Health
Artificial intelligence is dramatically transforming health fields—promoting discoveries in biomedical research, supporting breakthroughs in clinical diagnosis and practice, and affording new opportunities for mitigating and responding to public health crises.
But attendant to these advances are a complex and urgent series of ethical and technical challenges we must prepare to navigate.
To ensure that we maximize the potential of AI for healthcare, however, we must navigate various critical ethical challenges—from the perils of algorithmic bias and inequity of access and benefit distribution to concerns about privacy, consent, opacity, trust, and the dehumanization of care.
The mission of the Ethics of AI and Health Initiative is to help train the next generation of Georgetown’s healthcare practitioners, technologists, policy-makers, and academics to confront these challenges and promote the ethical adoption of AI-driven technology in health and care.
To help realize the potential of AI for all users of health and care services, the Ethics of AI and Health Initiative offers innovative and interdisciplinary lower- and upper-division courses, collaborative embeds, and program partnerships.
Are courses in the EAIH Initiative right for me?
The Initiative is framed for students of all backgrounds (though, particularly for those in the health-studies and technology realms) who are interested in exploring how the world around them is being shaped—and might soon be reshaped—by emerging AI technology. This venture necessitates careful ethical analyses, and fits squarely within the larger mission of the Ethics Lab at Georgetown University.
Interested? Keep reading to learn more!
Getting Started
Students begin Ethics of AI and Health (EAIH) studies by taking an introductory course (PHIL-2090) designed for students with no previous experience studying and critically engaging with health, artificial intelligence, and ethics.
The bridge-level class, PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI and Health, may satisfy the following requirements:
The College’s ethics distribution requirement
The College’s philosophy core requirement
An elective for the Medical Humanities Minor
An elective for the Tech Ethics & Society Minor
An eclectic for the Public Health Minor (with Advisor’s approval)
An elective for the Biology of Global Health’s interdisciplinary perspectives course requirement (with Advisor’s approval)
An elective for the STIA Minor (with Advisor’s approval)
AI in the World
Students explore how artificial intelligence, as a technology, has created a wealth of tools and opportunities in the world of healthcare. But with great tools comes great responsibility.
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Got Questions?
Contact Dr. Joel de Lara, Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Ethics of AI and Health Initiative, via email or by using the form below: