Interviews, Lectures, and Video Clips

As U.S. AI policy seems to change direction with regulatory barriers being removed in Favour of an innovation-driven approach, the webinar will explore the possible implications of these changes, focusing on responsibility in the medical field. How should responsible AI in medicine be translated into a regulatory approach? The speakers, all well acquainted with various legal systems, will deliberate on these contemporary issues, and other participants are encouraged to share

In this Harvard Medical School Program In Psychiatry And The Law (HMS PIPATL) meeting, held on April 24, 2024, Dr. Oren Asman from Tel Aviv University presented his work with colleagues on The Democratization of Mental Health tools that was recently presented in an International Workshop on Digital Well being at Tubingen University and published as a preprint (https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/58011) In his talk he also presented a practical example of how bioethical consid

Ido Aharoni is hosting Dr. Oren Asman and discussing what is 'responsible Artificial Intelligence' in Medicine, how it is relevant in health care, the Initiative for responsible AI in medicine, how it’s relevant to the current war in Israel, and what is the future of this exciting field. (January 2024, TAU Unboud 360)

In this Harvard Medical School Program In Psychiatry and The Law (PIPTAL) meeting, held on November 8th, 2023, Dr. Oren Asman presents some insights about the collective traumatic experience Israelis have faced since the October 7th Massacre. This is followed by a presentation of three projects: The Mental Health volunteer centers that were built right after the event, without any governmental involvement at this phase (Presented by Dr. Zohar Elyoseph), the Immediate Stabiliz

The ongoing advancement of generative AI (GAI) demands a thoughtful approach to ethical considerations of both its design and application. GAI models, demonstrating skills like language generation, image synthesis, and personalized mental health support, necessitate responsible application in mental health, requiring thorough scrutiny and guidance. In this webinar, we examined the evolving role of GAI in mental health. Our discussion was be led by two guest editors of the JMI

Dr. Asman, together with Dr. Amir Tal, both a discuss possible implications of chatbots as an "artificial other" in mental healthcare and discuss several use cases from a growing professional community in Israel. These include potential benefits for patients and therapists alike. Considering a general ethical framework for utilizing Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) in mental health is challenging, as more potential uses unravel. As a general thumb rule, responsi

Presenter: Jana Sedlakova, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) Date: 3 April, 2023 In a nutshell: Conversational artificial intelligence presents many opportunities in the psychotherapeutic landscape—such as therapeutic support for people with mental health problems and without access to care. The adoption of CAI poses many risks that need in-depth ethical scrutiny. This talk proposes a holistic, ethical, and epistemic analysis of CAI

PIPATL: Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Presenter: Dr. Oren Asman, LL.D. Title: Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Involuntary Commitment Legal procedures in Israel Details: The Israeli Law for the Treatment of the Mentally ill authorizes the District Psychiatric Committee to discuss involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and treatment both in Civil and Criminal psychiatric commitment. Based on several years chairing such commit

The Ukrainian Advocates Association held an online meeting on May 20th 2020 focusing on Medicine and Law in the COVID19 times. Dr. Oren Asman, co-director of the Bioethics and Law Center, Tel Aviv University, shared some current legal matters to give a sense of the constitutional balance in this regard in Israel (May 2020)