rTAIM Seminar #21 | Trustworthy AI: conceptual confusion or regulative principle? | 17 September 2025, 14h00, Online
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rTAIM (Rebuilding Trust in AI Medicine)
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Seminar #21
Trustworthy AI: conceptual confusion or regulative principle?
| Nadia Primc (Heidelberg University, Germany)
We are happy to announce the forthcoming 21st rTAIM Online Seminar, with the participation of Nadia Primc (Heidelberg University, Germany) on the 17th September 2025, 14h00-15h00 (Lisbon Time Zone), via Google Meet.
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#Seminar 21: The concept of "Trustworthy AI," introduced by the EU's High-Level Expert Group on AI in 2019, has generated significant philosophical controversy since its inception. Critics argue that trust relationships require uniquely human characteristics that AI systems fundamentally lack. In my talk I will examine the main philosophical objections through the lens of healthcare applications to develop a more nuanced understanding of trust in human-AI interaction. I will argue that these criticisms, while philosophically sophisticated, miss the practical realities of AI deployment in sensitive domains like healthcare. Trust language serves essential regulative functions in digital health applications. Instead of policing the boundaries of trust concepts, we can responsibly extend them to enable beneficial human-AI interaction while maintaining epistemological humility about AI systems' actual nature. The regulative approach preserves the insights of both critics and proponents: AI systems lack constitutive trustworthiness features as we know them from humans, yet we practically require trust-like relationships for successful socio-technical integration in healthcare.
Short bio: Nadia Primc is an Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at Heidelberg University. She is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Heidelberg. Her current research in medical ethics focuses, amongst others, on ethical dimension of digitalisation of healthcare.
rTAIM (Rebuilding Trust in AI Medicine) Monthly Seminars are online seminars open to anyone in the world that would like to present her/his current research on topics associated with the main theme of the project.
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Steven S. Gouveia (MLAG/IF)
Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
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