Doctoral student Luka Poslon from the Digital Healthcare Ethics (Digit-HeaL) laboratory attended the international scientific conference “Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies”, hosted by the Centre for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence and Ethics of New Technologies and the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana on 25 October 2022.

The international scientific conference brought together leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence and digital technologies to consider the ethical challenges and deployment of these technologies in the future. With the development and use of advanced technological systems, the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence raises a series of critical questions. The conference explored topics such as: the impact of algorithms in the online environment, issues of transhumanism and cyber-organisation, the challenges of machine learning (bias, transparency), issues of surveillance and face recognition, the problem of the human-machine relationship, and the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence in health care.

Poslon delivered a lecture entitled Empowering trust by embedding fairness in medical AI algorithm, addressing algorithmic fairness and presenting the ethical challenges of bias and fairness in the application of medical AI algorithms. He argued that algorithmic solutions in medicine should not only be developed to provide recommendations and predictions based on fairness and equity, but must also encompass procedural steps to mitigate bias in the data. He further added that fairness and equality would result in increased confidence for the application of medical AI algorithms.