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Innovation & Technology

Investigates the ethical challenges created by scientific and technological innovation, including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital systems, robotics, and data. It analyzes their impact on healthcare, society, and the human condition, seeking to guide technological transformation through dignity, safety, and responsibility.

Innovation & Technology

A necessary review of Brazilian legal education: reflections on academic processes in the face of the reality of generative artificial intelligence.

Brazilian legal education faces the challenge of integrating generative artificial intelligence without abandoning critical thinking, ethics, and humanistic training. More than adopting tools, it must prepare jurists to understand, regulate, and question the technology already transforming law.

25 min de leituraThierry Chozem Zamboni Kotinda

Innovation & Technology

Five beneficences for a post-biological era

Post-biological beneficence does not grant moral status to every machine. Instead, it proposes a bioethics capable of addressing non-biological systems that already shape human life, agency and vulnerability. From instrumental benefit to artificial relationships, critical infrastructures, autonomous agency and possible artificial welfare, bioethics must guide technology before harms become irreversible.

16 min de leituraMiguel Vieira

Innovation & Technology

Attack drones, autonomy and lethal decision-making: the Portuguese case and the ethical limits of technological warfare.

Loitering munitions make a decisive tension visible: technology can increase precision, but it can also distance the human agent from the moral decision to kill. The ethical question is not merely whether the weapon is effective or legal, but whether it preserves real human judgment, clear responsibility, and democratic limits on lethal force.

8 min de leituraMiguel Vieira

Innovation & Technology

Medical AI, clinical decision-making, and patient autonomy: from assisted decision-making to algorithmic co-clinic.

Medical AI is no longer merely a support tool: it is beginning to become a third presence in the consultation. Between doctor, patient, and algorithmic co-clinician, autonomy requires more than consent. It requires understanding, contestation, alternatives, and human responsibility, so that the patient remains the author of the decision affecting their health, body, and future.

10 min de leituraMaria Teresa Silva

Innovation & Technology

Health data, privacy, and consent: the autonomy lost when data starts circulating.

Health data are not merely information: they are sensitive fragments of the person. Their secondary use can improve research, public policy, and clinical innovation, but it requires privacy, understandable consent, fiduciary governance, and continuous transparency. Without post-consent autonomy, technical data protection may coexist with the ethical loss of the person.

11 min de leituraMiguel Vieira