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    The World Health Organisation (WHO) is leading a global effort to deliver improved diagnostic testing to people living in low‐resource settings. A reliance on the healthcare technologies marketplace and industry, shapes many aspects of the WHO project, and in this situation normative guidance comes by way of the ASSURED criteria — Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User‐friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment‐free, and Delivered. While generally improving access to diagnostics, I argue that the ASSU…Read more
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    Informed Faces
    with Andrew Benjamin and Christopher Townsend
    Angelaki 16 (1). 2011.
    Angelaki, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 1-3, 01Mar2011
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    The Virtues of Interpretable Medical AI
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1-10. forthcoming.
    Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or “interpretable” is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritizing interpretability in medical AI may constitute a “lethal prejudi…Read more
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    The virtues of interpretable medical artificial intelligence
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1-10. forthcoming.
    Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are 'black boxes'. The initial response in the literature was a demand for 'explainable AI'. However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or 'interpretable' is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritising interpretability in medical AI may constitute a 'lethal prejudi…Read more
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    It is likely that sex robots will exist in the near future, making the effect they might have on human relationships a pressing concern. In this future world, we can imagine sex robots shaping our personal and social relationships through their unique access to, and potential for influencing, our most intimate of behaviours. We investigate whether they might be employed to influence social behaviours in a positive way. The paper begins with an account of the state of the art, acknowledges powerf…Read more
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    Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge
    with Katrina Hutchinson
    Hastings Center Report 52 (2): 41-48. 2022.
    Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 41-48, March‐April 2022.
  • Book reviews (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (2): 214-215. 1998.