Ethics in AI for medicine

The area in which probably, from a social point of view, the greatest benefits for humanity are expected from the applications of Artificial Intelligence is medicine. If it is true that there are still many people, especially the elderly, not to mention those who live in poor countries, who live, more or less happily, without computers and the , and who use mobile phones – if they own one – practically only to make calls, today, at least in the most economically developed countries, but not only, one cannot think of being cured without the aid of medical technologies that are now widely used. So, it is highly likely that this will happen soon with AI. If with AI it is possible to have faster and more precise diagnoses, to identify more effective therapies for each specific patient, it will become increasingly difficult to perform health services without AI in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies (and we are not talking about medical schools and research 1 laboratories). But, while in most of the application areas, computers, the Internet and mobile phones, more or less intelligent, and similar devices and applications (e.g., home automation, navigators, etc.) people's lives (and deaths) are not at risk, when you enter the field of medicine we touch human flesh to the core, and every problem can be literally vital, fatal. The risks of medical technologies can be dramatic for people's lives. Therefore, the ethical challenges posed by the application of AI in medicine are also particularly important and crucial. We discuss AI in medicine and ethical implications in explainable AI (XAI).