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Should Doctor Robot possess moral empathy?

Critics of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) suggest that the technology is ethically harmful because it may lead to the dehumanization of the doctor–patient relationship (DPR) by eliminating moral empathy, which is viewed as a distinctively human trait. The benefits of clinical empathy—that is,...

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Published in:Bioethics Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 98 - 108
Main Author: Sirgiovanni, Elisabetta
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2025
Subjects:
Empathy
Criticism
Psychiatry
Respect
Compassion
Philosophy
Ethics
Physician-patient relations
Physicians
Health equity
Affect (Psychology)
Medical logic
Patient autonomy
Engineering
Decision making in clinical medicine
Robotics
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