Bioethics of artificial intelligence for integral and conscious well-being

Artificial intelligence is a tool at the service of the human being and a means of pursuing integral well-being. This tool aims at improving the human condition and removes the practical barriers that hinder the full development of happiness, understood as the search for the meaning of life and those good practices that make man virtuous. This concept can be traced back to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics under the lemma of Eudaimonia and still represents a fundamental orientation on the ethical question. In the healthcare sector, complex and long-standing ethical issues underlying the implementation of technologies are imposed. The risk of using artificial intelligence systems for purposes without ethical foundation and the equally serious and concrete possibility of giving them up to circumvent this risk, raises fundamental questions about the use of these systems to support therapeutic care and the health system in general. The word “cure”, which refers to interventions tout court in the health sector, and that of “care”, which refers instead to the integral well-being of the patient, are two necessary and not exclusive approaches.