Agentic AI, Medical Morality, and the Transformation of the Patient-Physician Relationship
A 25-page paper argues autonomous AI agents will transform the moral core of healthcare, demanding urgent ethical foresight.
Researchers Robert Ranisch and Sabine Salloch published a 25-page paper titled 'Agentic AI, Medical Morality, and the Transformation of the Patient-Physician Relationship' on arXiv. They argue that agentic AI (autonomous, goal-directed systems) will do more than assist—it will reconfigure the three domains of medical morality: decision, relation, and perception. This shift demands proactive ethical integration into AI design before widespread clinical deployment to safeguard the patient-physician relationship.
Why It Matters
As AI moves from assistant to autonomous agent, the foundational trust and ethics of healthcare are at stake, requiring new governance frameworks.