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How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think)

October 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly.

But AI has done something else – it has dragged bioethics into unfamiliar territory: this is because AI does not fit comfortably under one category of analysis (e.g., research, policy, technology development, public health) nor is even limited to the health sector but touches on every sector of society including trade policy, national security, banking, and immigration, among others.

This is a good thing, as it calls on bioethics to take stock of how it can (and should) engage in future-altering policy debates.

About the speaker

Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D has over 35 years of experience in academic, government, and not-for-profit settings.

Dr. Meslin is a Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Miami, an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University, and a Senior Fellow at the PHG Foundation, University of Cambridge. He is the former President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) and the former director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics.

Dr. Meslin has more than 200 published articles and book chapters on various topics in bioethics and science policy. He has been an advisor and served on committees of the World Health Organization, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, Genome Canada, OECD, UNESCO, and the UK Biobank.

Location: 5302 Roper Hall; Zoom webinar

Details

Date:
October 24
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Contact Email/Phone
brandyelsenrath@unc.edu