My guest today is Dr. Christian Yeasted. Dr. Christian Yeasted is Chair of Ethics at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. After seven years of researching the ethics of artificial intelligence, He wrote a science fiction novel titled, “The Final Invention”

Did you know - in addition to medical ethics, there is a type of ethics called Bioethics. According to John Hopkin’s Institute, new medicines, biomedical procedures, and ways of altering plants and animals are bringing benefits to millions of people. However, these same innovations have the potential to bring harms and raise ethical questions about their appropriate use.

The characters in this story experience strange malfunctions of technology that were previously thought to be safe. The result is destruction and chaos. At a construction site something goes wrong with the AI foreman, killing human workers. The characters must discover the source of the malfunctions before they turn more deadly.

Dr Yeasted maintains a clinical practice where he instructs medical students and residents in primary care.

In this conversation we talk about:

• The ethics of artificial intelligence in health care.
• Bioethics and medical ethics.
• How AI might be used to determine allocation of health care resources such as organ donation and pandemic care.
• Life extension: determining when someone should live or die.
• How to know if AI is used at your hospital or by your doctor.
• Potential unintended consequences of AI in health careHow .
• How AI can improve health care and be a useful tool for doctors and patients.

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Get the Book: The Final Invention: The Ethics of AI in a Near Future

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Connect with Dr Yeasted:

Website: authorcyeasted.com