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63889-01 - Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: Diversify Views of AI for Health Care (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2022 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Bernice Simone Elger (b.elger@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The development and usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ever increasing across medical contexts and presents a new frontier across interdisciplinary domains such as medicine, engineering, philosophy and ethics. In particular, the ability to understand the often overlooked narratives of fairness or critically think about the impact of AI in historically marginalized populations is a challenge to implement AI in healthcare safely. In this course, we examine the ethical challenges that arise from AI while focusing on diversifying the narratives about those challenges. In that sense, drawing on the knowledge of invited experts who have different viewpoints and experiences, we introduce challenges from a different perspective than the one that are taken for granted or accepted as natural (or that you might know already). Among others, we will discuss the role of women in AI, the specific AI challenges related to the aging populations and the importance of bringing additional values such as empathy to AI. In each session, an invited scholar will give a presentation on a pertinent topic, allowing us to approach the multifaceted complexity of medical AI from diverse angles. To accommodate for the ongoing difficulty of international travel, the course will take place in a hybrid format and can also be followed completely online. |
| Learning objectives | This course will stimulate critical thinking about technology, narrative and concept - helping students to identify challenges and opportunities of AI that are not often discuss and provide alternatives that move us toward a more just, fair and safe usage of AI. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 12.15-13.45 | - Online Präsenz - |
| Comments | Online Class 28th February to 16th of May (except holidays of March 7th, April 11th and April 18thl) 14 March 2022: 14:15 to 15:45 No class on 18.4.2022 Last class on 16.5. 2022 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 28.02.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 07.03.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | Fasnachtsferien |
| Monday 14.03.2022 | 14.15-15.45 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 21.03.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Monday 28.03.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 04.04.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Monday 11.04.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | no class |
| Monday 18.04.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | Ostern |
| Monday 25.04.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Monday 02.05.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Monday 09.05.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Monday 16.05.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
| Modules |
Aufbaumodul (Teil C) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Aufbaumodul (Teil D) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Doctorate Biomedical Ethics: Recommendations (PhD subject: Biomedical Ethics) Doctorate Nursing Science: Recommendations (PhD subject: Nursing Science) Electives Master Nursing: Recommendations (Master's Studies: Nursing) Modul: Biblische und systematische Theologie (Master's Studies: Theology) Modul: Ethik des Christentums - materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Master's degree subject: Theology) Modul: Ethik des Christentums - materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Master's Studies: Theology (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Ethik des Christentums – materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Master's Studies: Theology) Modul: Praktische Philosophie (Master's degree subject: Philosophy) Modul: Probleme der Praktischen Philosophie (Bachelor's degree subject: Philosophy) Modul: Soziologische Theorie BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Soziologische Theorie MA (Master's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Weltgesellschaft und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: Religion - Economics - Politics) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Attendance and a short paper on a related topic of your interest (ca. 1300 words), Pass/Fail Final essay due on the 20th of June 2022 |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: teaching staff |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Medicine |
| Offered by | Institut für Bio- und Medizinethik |