AI in healthcare: Big reward, equal risk?
- Date: 21 January 2026, 15:15
- Location: Online
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Jennifer Viberg Johansson, Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist
- Organiser: Centrum för forsknings- & bioetik
- Contact person: Anna Holm Bodin
The potential benefits of artificial intelligence in healthcare are abundant, and so are the ethical and legal challenges.
European regulation, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, classifies medical AI as high-risk, requiring strict standards for transparency, risk management, and human control. The challenge is not only technical, but ethical: How do we integrate AI responsibly while preserving the values that define good and fair care?
From broad ethical principles through clinical reality, Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist and Jennifer Viberg Johansson will guide us through the particularities of implementing a disruptive technology like artificial intelligence in the healthcare system, where transparency, fairness and quality are of the upmost importance. These values must guide the transition to ensure trust and patient safety and that issues of fairness, and of ensuring alternative treatment options are available when AI-based solutions fail, are not overlooked.
Speakers
Jennifer Viberg Johansson
Associate professor in medical ethics, with a research focus on methods that measure people's preferences and how to balance preferences against other ethical values; artificial intelligence and digital health information.
Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist
Teaches ethics at the molecular biology and medical doctors programmes. Senior lecturer in biomedical ethics and Associate Professor in practical philosophy, with a research focus on moral responsibility in various fields.
Moderator
Niklas Juth
Professor of medical ethics and research leader at CRB. Focus on the ethical issues that arise at the intersection of political philosophy and medical ethics. Chair of the ethics council of Region Uppsala.
