Artificial Intelligence and Bioethics

1. Introduction.- 2. What is Artificial Intelligence?.- 2.1. Definitions.- 2.2. History.- 2.3. State of play and future prospects.- 3. Bioethical inquiries about artificial intelligence.- 3.1. Bioethical issues common to weak and strong artificial intelligence.- 3.2. Bioethical issues resulting from strong artificial intelligence.- 3.2.1. Ontological discussions.- 3.2.2. Consequential discussions.- 4. Medicine and artificial intelligence.- 4.1. Use of artificial in health services.- 4.2. Main challenges in medical ethics.- 4.2.1. Confidentiality and privacy.- 4.2.2. Compassion, veracity and fidelity.- 4.2.3. Communication skills and case based approach.- 5. Conclusion.

Perihan Elif EKMEKCI is a medical doctor. She graduated from Ankara University School of Medicine (1995), and she also has bachelor's degree from Anadolu University Business Administration Faculty (2009). In 2014 she accomplished her PhD degree from Ankara University Medical School, department of history of medicine and ethics. She was a Fogarty Fellow in 2013-2014 and she had her master's certificate on research ethics through this fellowship from Harvard University. Dr Ekmekci was a research fellow in Imperial College Tanaka Business school in 2006. In 2015 she was elected as the first Turkish fellow for Western Institutional Review Board Research Ethics Program. She served as the head of EU relations department of Ministry of Health Turkey (2007-2016) and developed several projects in alliance with the EU. She was the Turkish representative for the European Center for Disease Control advisory board and served in this position between years 2011-2016.

Currently she is the head of history of medicine and ethics department and deputy dean of TOBB ETU medical school. She is serving as the head of Intuitional Review Board of TOBB ETU and executive committee member of Health Sciences Institute of TOBB ETU. She is a member of open science committee of TOBB ETU. She established UNESCO Bioethics Unit at TOBB ETU in 2019 and she is the head of this unit since then. She is a member of World Association for Medical Law since 2016. She is a member of International Forum of Teachers of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. She has several publications in distinguished journals on ethics and history of medicine. She is teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on history of medicine and ethic


Berna ARDA studied medicine and medical ethics at Ankara University School of Medicine. (MD 1987, MedSpec 1990, PhD 1993). She assigned to a full professor position in 1999. She served as associate editor for Turkish Journal of Medical Ethics (1994-99)