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Near-term ethical challenges of digital twins

Brent Mittelstadt

2021Journal of Medical Ethics25 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

The near-term ethical challenges of digital twinsIn 'Represent me: please!Towards an ethics of digital twins in medicine' 1 , Mattias Braun analyses the potential for simulations of human organs and bodies, or "digital twins," to faithfully a person.Drawing from several French philosophers, he introduces "first conditions for digital twins to take on an ethically justifiable form of representation". 1

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