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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alena Buyx\nhosted by Michael Sixt\nAbstract: Generati
 ve AI (ChatGPT\, Midjourney\, etc.) has exploded into the world and sudde
 nly\, both - doom scenarios as well as utopian visions - are being hotly 
 discussed in talk shows\, on the news and at dinner tables. While ethicist
 s are delighted that the implications of wider AI use have found their way
  into wider public debate\, these discussions should benefit from longstan
 ding work on the ethical and social aspects of AI. Ethics and other relate
 d fields have long discussed ways to use and integrate AI into individual 
 lifeworlds and society responsively. This talk offers an overview of ethic
 al issues and discusses advantages\, risks and ways forward in using AI fo
 r individual and social good.BioAlena Buyx is Professor of Ethics in Medic
 ine and Health Technologies and Director of the Institute of History and E
 thics in Medicine at the Technical University of Munich. She has previousl
 y held appointments at the University of Kiel\, University of Münster\, 
 Harvard University\, and University College London\; and she was Assistant
  Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics\, London.Professor Buyx is 
 a medical doctor with postgraduate degrees in philosophy and sociology. He
 r research spans the whole field of biomedical and public health ethics\, 
 with a particular focus on ethics of medical innovation and health technol
 ogies\, research ethics\, questions of solidarity and justice in contexts 
 such as public health and health care provision\, and novel participatory 
 approaches in biomedicine and beyond. She has expertise in theoretical eth
 ical analysis as well as in empirical\, mixed-methods approaches and polic
 y development. She is keen on interdisciplinary approaches and collaborate
 s regularly with clinical colleagues as well as with public health profess
 ionals\, political and social scientists\, philosophers\, lawyers or healt
 h economists.As a PI\, Professor Buyx has been awarded over 3.9 million Eu
 ros over the last five years for dedicated ethics research (EU\, DFG\, BMB
 F etc.). Her work is published in high-ranking journals\, such as Science\
 , BMJ\, GiM or Bioethics. She is an award-winning teacher of medical and l
 ife science students\, early career researchers\, clinicians and health pr
 ofessionals. In addition to research and teaching\, Professor Buyx is acti
 ve in the political and regulatory aspects of biomedical ethics\, sitting 
 on a number of high-level national and international ethics bodies concern
 ed with policy development and implementation\, and consulting for various
  international research consortia and policy initiatives. She has been a m
 ember of the German Ethics Council since 2016 and has been the chair since
  2020. In 2020 she was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences 
 Leopoldina as a member of the Epistemology Section. In 2021\, she was awar
 ded the German National Prize and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal of the TU
 M\; since 2022\, she has been a bearer of the Bavarian Constitutional Orde
 r.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:arinya.eller@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Alena Buyx: Between hope and hype - ethical aspects of generative A
 I
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/4078
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