Ethics for the design of digital tools and artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare.
What are ethics?
Ethics is a reflection on the meaning and purpose of our behavior. It can be applied to specific fields, such as health, and help resolve moral dilemmas. It reflects our values and commitments, and can lead to the establishment of rules to be followed.
The missions of the Ethics, Law and Uses Unit :
Regulatory watch and scientific productions of the Ethics, Law and Uses Unit
The Ethics, Law and Usage Unit provides a regulatory watch on digital tools and artificial intelligence, and offers a simplified version of current standards.
It also puts at your disposal a body of scientific work that can help you develop your projects.
Recommendation, Action, Support
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Clarify
A process of reflection to clarify choices and options throughout the design process, beyond their technical or medical dimension.
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Guide
A process of elaboration to guide project leaders and designers through the various stages of creation, proposing recommendations for each phase without imposing pre-established answers.
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Support
An approach to implementing values and principles to support compliance with standards derived from Internationally recognized regulations: transparency, safety, sustainable impact, autonomy, responsibility, explicability, equity, privacy, etc.
Contact us to find out how we can help you integrate ethics into your projects.
Please find below the contact details of the ethics researcher:
Publications of the Ethics, Law and Usage Unit
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Santiago Nicolas, Le Coz Pierre, L'intelligence artificielle peut-elle résoudre les dilemmes moraux ? Revue Droit et Santé, n°125, 2025, p.490-492
The Institut Laënnec presents a review of an original study conducted to assess the acceptability of using AI to resolve resuscitation dilemmas. This study, which opens the way for reflection on the acceptability of AI in the field of ethics, suggests that AI could become a partner in deliberation, without replacing human ethical reflection.
https:// www.bnds.fr/edition-numerique/revue/rds/rds-125/lintelligence-artificie…
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Confiance excessive dans les chatbots génératifs : l’indépendance du médecin est-elle en péril ? Nicolas Santiago, Pierre Le Coz. La Revue du Praticien, 22 décembre 2025.
L’usage des chatbots génératifs par le corps médical se généralise. Paradoxalement, la vigilance des praticiens est menacée par la quantité de réponses fiables. Peu à peu, l’intelligence artificielle (IA) en vient à inspirer une confiance excessive, au risque d’entraîner un « biais d’automatisation » susceptible de compromettre l’indépendance du médecin. Pour prévenir cette dérive, il convient d’assigner à l’IA un statut dérogatoire, en limitant son recours à des situations spécifiques, clairement identifiées.