The Influence of AI in Medical Ethics and Warfare

The Influence of AI in Medical Ethics and Warfare

In thinking about the future revolution that is currently underway in artificial intelligence and its impact on our lives, we must imagine the ethical implications when non-human systems make what was until now human choices. Nowhere will this impact humanity than in the field of medicine and warfare. In these two poles of human action, saving life, and destroying life, AI will exert its influence for the better or for worse. In this review article I will compare these two opposite paradigms of human activity, those of healing and destroying.