As the world of medicine increasingly adopts artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, researchers have been forced to confront both the rapid medical advances and the complex and risky uncertainties that come with this new age of medicine. The use of AI-based neuroprostheses as medical devices in particular raises many ethical and legal questions. Professor Jennifer Chandler has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study these questions as part of her 3-year project “Hybrid Minds: Experiential, ethical and legal investigation of intelligent neuroprostheses”.
The project involves an international research team of experts from Canada, Germany and Switzerland, coordinated by Professor Chandler. Earlier this year, she received funding from the European Research Area Networks (ERA-NET) program for the project. Click here to read more about the project and the ERA-NET funding.
Professor Chandler and her multidisciplinary and multi-national team are ultimately pursuing a unified theoretical approach to the ethical-legal assessment of intelligent neuroprostheses. Their research will incorporate the perspectives of users, the neuroengineering community and other key stakeholders in order to effectively answer the complex questions posed by this novel and rapidly evolving field of health care.
Congratulations to Professor Chandler and her colleagues!