This conference will clearly map how the introduction of AI in medicine unfolds, which aspects of the health care systems will be impacted most, and how this impact will unfold. First and foremost, it intends to discuss in depth, the question how to shape this transition in a responsible way.

As the WHO calls for ‘safe and ethical medical AI’, academics and practitioners are pressed to address the question, which of the ongoing and future developments in medical AI are desirable or could be desirable under the right conditions. Prominent voices have suggested that the introduction of medical AI can ‘make medicine human again’ (Topol 2019). Warnings, however, that the introduction of medical AI systems undermines the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship, that it threatens responsibility attribution in that system, that it reproduces existing social biases and inequalities (e.g. in diagnostic processes), that it disorients medical research and makes health care more inefficient, have equally been issued.

What would it mean to make AI practices and products responsible? What values would need to be implemented in the design of those technologies and how can this be done? What ways can we discover to ensure that health care stays responsible after the introduction of AI? These and other questions will be discussed in depth during this international conference.