AG Heinzelmann, 20.06.2025  Trustworthy AI in the context of healthcare – conceptual confusion or therapeutic principle?

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The concept of trustworthy AI has been widely adopted in the public and scientific debate on AI. It has sparked a philosophical debate on whether trust(worthiness) can and should be applied to the field of artificial intelligence, as well as on the possible benefits and risks that may be related to it. The broad use stands in stark contrast to the philosophical criticism of trustworthy AI. With regard to the healthcare sector, I will argue that the leading philosophical question should be what function trust phenomena play in the interaction with medical AI (or avatars), rather than whether this represents a correct use of the concept of trust(worthiness) originally developed in the interpersonal domain.

Nadia Primc is an associate professor in the field of medical ethics at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg. Her habilitation dealt with ethical questions of resource allocation and justice using the example of organ allocation and the handling of scarce nursing resources in healthcare. Her other research areas include ethical questions regarding the digitization of healthcare, care ethics and ethics of non-medical health professions, as well as ethical questions in reproductive medicine.