Resources on Generative AI

Events

Below is a list of upcoming events and archived events focusing on Generative AI.

Ethical Issues in Using Artificial Intelligence in Research and Scholarly Writing

February 6, 2025
Noon – 1:00 pm

David Resnik, JD, PhD
Bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the nature of research and scholarly writing. Although the use of AI offers many benefits to scientific research and academic scholarship, it also creates ethical challenges concerning bias, authorship, transparency, accountability, and public trust. This talk will examine some of the ethical issues raised by using artificial intelligence in scientific research and scholarly writing and discuss some proposed solutions.

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Sponsored by Albany Medical College Alden March Bioethics Institute

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Online

Privacy Lessons for Risk-Based AI Regulation

February 21, 2025
11:00 am – Noon

Jon Penney, JD
Associate Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

Abstract: A combination of ubiquitous computing, big data, and the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems across all sectors of society has created immense new possibilities, but also serious new risks for privacy, safety, and human rights. Today, the consensus approach to AI regulation internationally is risk-based approaches. Lawmakers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and elsewhere have turned to risk-based regulatory tools and schemes to regulate and govern AI systems. While there is a lively debate about the wisdom of risk-based approaches in AI scholarship and public policy, much less has been said about the wisdom of risk-based approaches for AI data privacy and governance. That is the focus of this talk.
Drawing on lessons from privacy and data protection law, policy, and research, this talk argues that the risk-based approaches to AI regulation predominant today are not only largely incommensurable with robust protection for data privacy interests, but need to be fundamentally re-oriented—or entirely abandoned—to address the real risks and harms of AI systems today and tomorrow.

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Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

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Online

The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research: Challenges & Emerging Guidance

March 5, 2025
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Abstract: Researchers across many disciplines are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models such as ChatGPT, to support empirical research and data analysis, academic writing, peer review, and development of new tools. The broad reach of AI in research raises pressing ethical questions about scientific integrity, authorship, data privacy, bias, and equity. This interdisciplinary conference—with experts from a range of disciplines, from biomedical sciences to the humanities—will discuss how AI is being used in research, the challenges it presents to research ethics and integrity, and current guidance on using AI in research and publication.

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Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences

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Online

Ethics and the Law and Regulation of Medical AI

March 7, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 pm

Panelists:
I. Glenn Cohen, JD (Harvard University)

Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD, LLM (Northeastern University School of Law)

Moderated by: Mason Marks, MD, JD (Florida State University College of Law)

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is poised for impact on every aspect of healthcare, healthcare systems, and clinical practice. As use cases emerge, careful analysis of ethical concerns and new legal and regulatory tools are needed. This conversation will explore the ethical considerations for medical and consider current and possible legal and regulatory approaches.

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Sponsored by Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

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Online

AI in Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues

March 18, 2025
Noon – 1:00 pm

The Tisherman Lecture
Medicine and Ethics Grand Rounds

I. Glenn Cohen, JD
James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law
Harvard University

Abstract: From radiology to embryology to day-to-day encounters with a patient, medical AI is rapidly becoming embedded in medical practice. How should the law regulate medical AI? What does ethical use of medical AI look like? This lecture will seek to further that conversation, covering topics such as privacy, informed consent, bias, liability, and governance of medical AI.

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Co-sponsored by the Tisherman Family, the Department of Medicine, and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law

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Online and in-person in the LHAS auditorium

Implementation of AI in Surgery: Ethical Considerations

April 28, 2025
7:00 – 9:00 pm

2025 Harvard Surgical Ethics Conference

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Presented by the Surgical Ethics Working Group at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

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Online

Archived Events

Cancer, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: (Almost) Everything is Under Control. November 20, 2024.
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. Panelists provided an overview of some of the ethical issues raised by AI, with a particular focus on how educators can respond to the rise of ChatGPT and other large language models, October 29, 2024.
How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think). Dr. Eric M. Meslin discussed how bioethics can (and should) engage in future-altering policy debates regarding AI, October 24, 2024.
The AI Touch: Harnessing AI to Enrich Patient Care. Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal explored the integration of emerging AI into healthcare to provide personalized, empathetic care, October 8, 2024.
AI & Education Summit. The MIT AI & Education 2024 Summit explored creative ways to include AI education in the classroom in the hopes of making learning more effective, July 24–26, 2024.
Towards an Ethics-Based Governance Framework for AI-Enabled Health Innovations?. Panelists discussed the pursuit of accountability, transparency, and legitimacy in AI applications, particularly in developing countries, April 23, 2024.
Visual Art and Digital Artistry. Artist Boris Eldagsen addressed the opportunities and challenges posed by generative AI for artists, journalists, and students, March 29, 2024.
Social Activism and Digital Revolutions. Panelists offered insight into how students, educators, and citizens can engage with digital technology as a tool for community-oriented engagement and advocacy, January 26, 2024.
Generative AI and Teaching: Uses in Evaluation of Learning. Panelists addressed research on automated graders, the ways that generative AI is being leveraged for assessment, and the advantages and disadvantages, January 19, 2024.
Assembling Public Perspectives on AI. Panelists discussed the Public Assembly on High Risk AI's 2023 report, December 13, 2023.
Humans Outside the Loop. Speaker Charlotte Tschider examined the key issues in existing liability models for AI products, December 7, 2023.
Archives, Data Storage, and Surveillance. Panelists explored the present state of our personal histories as data in archives and storage sites around the world, November 10, 2023.
Generative AI and Research: Policies, Practices, and Ethics in Publishing. Panelists discussed the use of generative AI in the various practices of producing published material, including writing research proposals and writing, reviewing, and publishing manuscripts, November 10, 2023.
Generative AI and Pedagogy: Values and Opportunities. Panelists explored positive uses of generative AI in teaching, fundamental literacies around generative AI for students, and issues of academic integrity, October 27, 2023.
Generative AI in/as Theater and Performance. Panelists examined theater as a space of language development, political discourse, and technological innovation, October 27, 2023.
A Preliminary Model of Moral Disengagement and Re-engagement of AI Developers. Dr. Mildred Cho considered possible facilitators and barriers to the development of ethical machine learning, October 3, 2023.
Generative AI and Digital Humanities. Panelists examined popular thought on AI and reconceptualized its role in the digital humanities, September 29, 2023.
The Urgent Need for “Nutrition Facts Labels” for AI. Dr. Sara Gerke discussed the many regulatory issues raised by AI/ML-based medical devices, August 21, 2023.
What Should ChatGPT Mean for Bioethics and Education?. June 28, 2023.
ChatGPT, Knowledge, and Misinformation: Technology and Its Many Impacts on Health, Wellness, and Society. Panelists discussed AI and other technologies that are changing the landscape of society, health, wellness, and scientific research, June 21, 2023.
Generative AI: Opportunities, Risks, and Implications for Higher Education. Faculty leaders Morgan Frank, PhD (Department of Informatics and Networked Systems), Annette Vee, PhD (Department of English), Na-Rae Han, PhD (Department of Linguistics), and Ravit Dotan, PhD (Center for Governance and Markets) lead workshops examining generative AI and its implications for higher education, May 4 – 11, 2023.
ChatGPT Wrote this Title: Exploring the Impact of AI on Our Minds and Society. Panelists discussed how generative AI affects the way we think, write and speak, and the associated impacts on society, April 19, 2023.