Abstract Ethics is concerned with what it to live a flourishing life and we morally owe others. The optimizing mindset prevalent among computer scientists economists, other powerful actors, has led an approach focused on maximizing the fulfilment of human preferences, that acquired considerable influence in ethics AI. But this preference-based utilitarianism open serious objections. This essay ...

To provide patient-centered care, physicians must be well trained in the concepts and methods of humanistic practice. Educational efforts to promote humanism may help to overcome the counter-training of the hidden medical school curriculum, responsible for a decline in empathy and idealism over the course of medical training. The online component of the clerkship in family medicine at Boston Un...