Imperial College London
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Cosmin Badea

Central Faculty, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

Part Time Lecturer in Philosophy
 
 
 
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Location

 

306Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{Post:2022,
author = {Post, B and Badea, C and Faisal, A and Brett, S},
title = {Breaking Bad News in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Medicine: An Exploration of Disclosure and its Ethical Justification using the Hedonic Calculus},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - UNPB
AB  - An appropriate ethical framework around the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has becomea key desirable with the increasingly widespread deployment of this technology. Advances in AI hold thepromise of improving the precision of outcome prediction at the level of the individual. However, theaddition of these technologies to patient-clinician interactions, as with any complex human interaction,has potential pitfalls. While physicians have always had to carefully consider the ethical background andimplications of their actions, detailed deliberations around fast-moving technological progress may nothave kept up. We use a common but key challenge in healthcare interactions, the disclosure of bad news(likely imminent death), to illustrate how the philosophical framework of the 'Felicific Calculus' developedin the 18th century by Jeremy Bentham, may have a timely quasi-quantitative application in the age of AI.We show how this ethical algorithm can be used to assess, across seven mutually exclusive and exhaustivedomains, whether an AI-supported action can be morally justified.
AU  - Post,B
AU  - Badea,C
AU  - Faisal,A
AU  - Brett,S
PY  - 2022///
TI  - Breaking Bad News in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Medicine: An Exploration of Disclosure and its Ethical Justification using the Hedonic Calculus
ER  -
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