Subproject E

Subproject E

Project area E researches the ethical, legal, and social issues in the context of EmpkinS and develops orientation marks for its future societal design. As ethicists, the researchers face these challenges together with their colleagues in EmpkinS from day one to the day of implementation.  

 

Project area E uses different methodological lenses to investigate the ethical chances and choices:

 

Normative challenges

What conflicts arise with regard to normative concepts and implementation conditions through EmpkinS sensor technologies? How can the normative concepts and implementation conditions be further developed so that they provide clear orientation? The underlying theories and concepts are analysed as part of normative research. This is also necessary because it is already apparent at this stage of EmpkinS research that fundamental ethical norms and orientation concepts, such as autonomy and self-determination, sovereignty and surveillance, as well as solidarity and justice, are being challenged and transformed by using new sensor technologies.

 

 

Procedural challenges

What conflicts arise with regard to normative concepts and implementation conditions through EmpkinS sensor technology? And how can the normative concepts and implementation conditions be further developed so they provide clear orientation? This requires a comprehensive analysis and knowledge of the ethical and social procedural modes and criteria. Necessary forms of control, such as meaningful human control, are analysed for this purpose.

 

 

Intuition and values

What intuitions and feelings do people have about measuring the body without touching? What values play a role, and what conclusions are drawn from them? To investigate this, a qualitative-empirical study in the form of an interview study is being conducted. The aim of the study is to gain an empirically based understanding and value patterns of attitudes towards AI-based contactless sensor technologies.

 

 

Governance Aspects

Building on the knowledge of these three facets, an initial examination of fundamental governance issues takes place. This involves the question of how models and forms of social participation and creative involvement can be incorporated into the development and research process. 

 

 

 

Science Communication

Science communication is an important component of project area E in order to enable forms of participation as early as during the research stage. Several science slams have already been held in 2023.

 

 

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Lunch Series “Ethics, AI & Health”

 

Contacts

Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock

Principal Investigator

Eva Maria Hille

Doctoral Candidate

Tabea Ott

Doctoral Candidate

Hannah Bleher

Associated Doctoral Candidate

Max Tretter

Associate Doctoral Candidate

 

 

Additional Information

  • Tretter M.:
    Mitigating Health-Related Uncertainties During Pregnancy: The Role of Smart Health Monitoring Technologies
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (2024). ISSN: 1438-8871. DOI: 10.2196/48493
  • Bleher H., Braun M.:
    Reflections on Putting AI Ethics into Practice: How Three AI Ethics Approaches Conceptualize Theory and Practice.
    Science and Engineering Ethics 29, 21 (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s11948-023-00443-3.
  • Braun M., Bleher H., Hille EM., Krutzinna J.:
    Tackling Structural Injustices: On the Entanglement of Visibility and Justice in Emerging Technologies
    American Journal of Bioethics 23 (2023), S. 100-102. ISSN: 1526-5161. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2207514.
  • Glasze G. et al.:
    Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty.
    Geopolitics (2023). DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2050070.
  • Hille EM., Hummel P., Braun M.:
    Meaningful Human Control over AI for Health? A Review.
    Journal of Medical Ethics. Published Online First: 20 September 2023. DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-109095.
  • Ott T.:
    The Impact of Smart Sensor Technologies on the Total Care Principle.
    IVMS Kongress, Sorge – Care – Sorge – Care. Anthropologische Zugänge – Ethische Konzepte – Gesellschaftliche Praxen. Münster, 10. – 13. September 2023.
  • Ott T.:
    Überlegungen zur menschlichen Integrität im Kontext digitaler Datensammlungen.
    Forschungsseminar Prof. Arne Manzeschke, Ev. Hochschule Nürnberg. Nürnberg, 10 Januar 2023.
  • Ott T., Dabrock P.:
    Vulnerable Integrity. Theological-Ethical Reflections on Human Integrity and Integrity Violations.
    De Ethica 7,3 (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01174-9.
  • Ott T., Heckel M., Öhl N. et al.:
    Palliative care and new technologies. The use of smart sensor technologies and its impact on the Total Care principle.
    BMC Palliat Care 22, 50 (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01174-9.
  • Tretter M., Ott T., Dabrock P.:
    AI-produced certainties in health care: current and future challenges.
    AI and Ethics (2023). ISSN: 2730-5961. DOI: 10.1007/s43681-023-00374-6.
  • Tretter M., Samhammer D., Dabrock P.:
    Künstliche Intelligenz in der Medizin: Von Entlastungen und neuen Anforderungen im ärztlichen Handeln.
    Ethik in der Medizin (2023). ISSN: 0935-7335. DOI: 10.1007/s00481-023-00789-z .
  • Tretter M., Samhammer D., Ott T., Dabrock P.:
    Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse.
    Journal of Metaverse 3 (2023), S. 181-189. ISSN: 2792-0232. DOI: 10.57019/jmv.1318774.
  • Bleher H., Braun M.:
    Diffused responsibility: attributions of responsibility in the use of AI-driven clinical decision support systems.
    AI and Ethics (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s43681-022-00135-x.
  • Braun M., Krutzinna J.:
    Digital twins and the ethics of health decision-making concerning children.
    Cell Patterns 3 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100469.
  • Dabrock P.:
    Öffentliche Theologie und die Ethik gesundheitsbezogener Lernender Systeme (KI).
    In: Hans-Ulrich Dallmann (Hrsg.): Kritische Öffentliche Theologie, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022, S. 159-172 (Öffentliche Theologie (ÖTh), Bd.42), ISBN: 978-3-374-07200-2.
  • Dabrock P.:
    Prüft aber alles und das Gute behaltet!“ Theologisches und Ethisches zu Künstlicher Intelligenz.
    In: Theologische Literaturzeitung (2022), S. 636–650, ISSN: 0040-5671.
  • Hille EM.:
    It’s just water?! Ethical reflections on theories of justice.
    European School of Positive Impact and Responsibility (ESPOIR), Paris, 18 Juli 2022 – 23 Juli 2022.
  • Hille EM., Braun M.:
    Alles privat? Zur Ethik von Public Health und neuen Technologien.
    Public Health Forum (2022). DOI: 10.1515/pubhef-2021-0130.
  • Ott T.:
    Patients in health care as data assemblages – a threat to human integrity?
    SOCIETAS ETHICA | 58TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ZÜRICH, 25 August 2022 – 28 August 2022.
    Ott T.:
    Transparency – An Infraethical Phenomenon?
    Workshop hosted by the Open Society Research Platform Transparency, Technology, and New Closures in Open Society, Central European University Vienna, 2 Dezember 2022.
  • Ott T., Dabrock P.:
    Transparent human – (non-) transparent technology? The Janus-faced call for transparency in AI-based health care technologies.
    Front. Genet. 13 (2022), 22 August 2022. Sec. ELSI in Science and Genetics. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.902960.
  • Tretter M.:
    Sovereignty in the Digital and Contact Tracing Apps.
    Digital Society 2 (2022), S. 1–28, ISSN: 2731-4650. DOI: 10.1007/s44206-022-00030-2.
  • Braun M., Hummel P.
    Data Justice and Data Solidarity.
    Cell Patterns 2 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s43681-022-00135-x.
  • Hille EM.:
    Verantwortung als zentrales Motiv einer Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz.
    Digitale Tagung des neth:KI – Netzwerk für Theologie und KI: „Alexa, wie hast du’s mit der Religion? Technik, Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz im Fokus der Theologie“ (Digital, 8 Oktober 2021 – 9 Oktober 2021).