Education in Algor-ethics
essential to use of AI in medicine
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| A prosthetic leg equipped with artificial intelligence at the AI Xperience Center in Brussels (REUTERS) |
As the Vatican holds a workshop on ethics in artificial
intelligence, Professor Maria Chiara Carrozza describes how AI can integrate
with human intelligence in the field of medicine.
By Benedict Mayaki
Technological advancements in the field of medicine point to
a projected increase in the integration of AI in the management and provision
of healthcare.
One open question in the field is how to accompany this
important phenomenon with ethical guidance.
Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza, an Italian industrial
bioengineer at the Santa’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, spoke to
Vatican Radio about the issue, on the sidelines of a press conference launching
the Vatican AI workshop on Tuesday.
Guarantee human dignity
Prof. Carrozza noted that ethics is important because of the
expansion of AI in our lives and its potential misuse to commercialize the data
of patients.
For this reason, she said, we must “guarantee human dignity,
human access to healthcare mechanisms and ensure that the data of patients is
used for good and not for bad – not for business.”
Bias in AI
Speaking on the issue of bias in artificial intelligence,
she said the diagnostic and decision-making capacities of AI technologies are
becoming more sophisticated but are subject to biases based on ethnic, cultural
and religious categories.
It is therefore necessary to understand the algorithms in AI
and how they work in order to develop programs that follow human ethical
principles, according to Prof. Carrozza.
Algor-ethics
“You use human intelligence, sensitivities, sensibilities,
and ethical principles to take final decisions,” she said. “We must know the
process that was used in the making of decisions and even enter into the
process. This is algor-ethics.”
Work retraining
Finally, Prof. Carrozza said AI and the ongoing digital
transformation will surely change the number of jobs available to humans, as
well as the type of work done. She said the answer is to retrain workers.
“Education and training is fundamental in order to prepare
people for such a digital transformation and the future of work.”
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