Technology & Ethics

Critical examinations of AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies through an ethical lens.

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The Ethics of Predictive Health: How Early is Too Early to Act?

When Sofia’s genetic test results arrived, they contained a number that would change her life: an 87% likelihood of developing early-onset Alzheimer’s within the next twenty years. She was 38, a mother of two, and — at that moment — entirely healthy.

Her neurologist offered no treatment plan, because there was no disease to treat. What he offered instead was a choice: join a prevention study, change lifestyle factors, begin frequent scans. The science was certain enough to warn her, but not certain enough to cure her.

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When AI Diagnoses Before the Doctor: Who Owns the Patient’s Trust?

It starts quietly, almost invisibly: a wristwatch alert about an irregular heartbeat, a phone notification flagging suspicious moles, a pop-up in a patient portal suggesting further screening based on subtle patterns in lab results. Increasingly, AI is spotting illness before a human clinician ever reads a chart.

For public health, this promises a revolution. For the physician-patient relationship, it raises a thornier question: when a machine sees you first, whose judgment do you trust?

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