"Lecture: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Medicine" by the French Philosopher Gabrielle Halpern in the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius - Lithuania

During her visit to Lithuania for a series of lectures on artificial intelligence, philosopher Gabrielle Halpern spoke to representatives of the Vilnius Faculty of Medicine to share her vision of artificial intelligence and how it is re-examining medicine, health, and healthcare settings.

"Our society is bursting with the silos that divide us, the labels we spend our lives sticking on each other, the boxes in which we lock others and ourselves. We have spent centuries seeing the world in a fragmented way, this has influenced our professions, our sciences, our organization of work, our industries, the development of our sciences, our training, our public policies, the organization of our sectors and even our territories. Isn't it time to build bridges between worlds? What if hybridization was the big trend of the world to come? Hybridization is the unlikely marriage! It is the act of bringing together things, sectors, activities, professions, destinations, people, uses, skills, materials, territories, imaginations, generations, which, a priori, had little to do or do together, or which could even seem contradictory, and which, together, will give rise to new uses, new places, new professions, new models, new territories... New worlds, in short!", Gabrielle Halpern

"Hybriding hospitals and theaters, the medico-social and the recreational, the therapeutic and the cultural seems crazy, and yet, it could well be that these hybridizations of the world of health could open up new avenues for the greater benefit of caregivers and patients! Indeed, like many other sectors, the health sector has unfortunately not escaped our rationality which transforms our brain into a factory for the mass production of boxes, in which we put everything and everyone we meet. We have become masters at sticking labels on everything and everyone: patients, caregivers, public sector, private sector, community medicine, device or organ specialties, etc. Patients themselves are categorized into services, whether pediatric or geriatric. This way of considering health in silos creates absurd boundaries between generations, diseases, organs, specialties, professions, patients, caregivers and places. The absence of hybridization within the system of health prevents it from being as responsive as it should be and reinforces the unhappiness of all its stakeholders.", Gabrielle Halpern

"If a generative artificial intelligence tool such as Chat GPT, Copilot, Le Chat or DeepSeek has more empathy than doctors, more patience than teachers, more imagination than lawyers, more kindness than our neighbors, more tolerance than our friends, more listening skills than our parents, shouldn't that shake us up, by relearning patience, empathy, listening, tolerance, kindness and imagination? The real question we must ask ourselves when faced with artificial intelligence is the following: isn't it we, human beings, who have abandoned the terrain of humanism and isn't it hypocritical to now cry scandal about the great replacement of human beings by technologies? Lacking the courage to assume our humanity, isn't it too easy to delegate it to artificial intelligence?", Gabrielle Halpern

"Generative artificial intelligence shines a spotlight on our failures, our contradictions, our absurdities. By playing the role of our "bad conscience," it radically challenges us. By giving us a lesson in humility, but also in tolerance, listening, attention, kindness, patience, artificial intelligence will perhaps help us, if we have the courage, to rediscover and embrace our humanity," Gabrielle Halpern

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