By Jacqueline Lutz & Lindsay Ayearst In applied digital health, questions about evidence generation are inseparable from how products are built and whether they ever reach patients. Many scientists working on digital therapeutics are academically trained to run controlled clinical studies, behavioral experiments, or to study specific behavioral intervention mechanisms. That rigor does not disappear […]
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M3GAN 2.0: A case study in AI ethics and policy
By Ambria Williams, Lisa Kearns, and Kellie Owens This piece contains spoilers for the films “M3GAN” and “M3GAN 2.0”. Imagine a science fiction horror movie with an ethicist as the protagonist. As improbable as that seems, it’s the case in M3GAN 2.0, the sequel to the 2023 box-office hit M3GAN, in which an AI tech […]
Is deepfake therapy ethically and legally acceptable?
By Marieke Bak and Saar Hoek When is technology helpful and when is it harmful? Can new technologies be used to create a better world, or are they only making matters worse? These are the questions that first crossed our minds when we came across deepfake therapy. All deepfake technology uses deep learning—a form of […]
How we never met – and wrote an article about it: Communication, relationship and ethics in video-based telepsychiatric consultations
By: Eva-Maria Frittgen, Joschka Haltaufderheide During the first waves of the COVID-pandemic, videoconferencing quickly became one of the preferred ways of communicating. This was also the way how we as authors first met (and have met ever since without ever meeting in person) and started to think about the use of video-based consultations in healthcare: […]