This is a Technicum podcast.

Humankind has been talking about ethics as long as we have been talking.

But ethics and technology, now that's a relatively new conversation.

After all, when we think of ethics, technology is probably not the first thing

that comes to mind. I'm Peter Balland from Technicon, and I'm happy to bring you this special

podcast series entitled Ethics and Technology, a prerequisite for European research.

We can't tackle the entire and often fluid topic of ethics, but we can show you that

things are being done to avoid unintended ethical consequences and inequities. We can explain

some of the more common ethical issues that become apparent in technology projects, and we can

tell you how these issues are abated. And that is exactly what we will do

in this series. We will look at ethics in the context of technology from many disciplines,

including cybersecurity, infrastructure and smart mobility, artificial intelligence in personalized

health care, and forensic software and hardware engineering, to name a few.

We will talk about attitudes towards ethics, and we will examine how ELSA is increasingly becoming part of the framework in EU-funded projects.

And in case you don't know, ELSA is ethical, legal, and societal aspects. And if you're running a project without

regard to Elsa, your propensity for complications will grow exponentially. To kick things off, we

delve into the idea of ethics in the world of personalized medicine. More specifically,

using artificial intelligence to harmonize tons of data

in order to guide doctors towards prescribing personalized treatment plans for children with cancer.

These data consist of things like medical publications or large molecular data sets.

As you can imagine, balancing the ethical issues with technological advancements is

quite a task. Today, we are lucky enough to speak with Nicola Biller-Andorno, who directs the

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