Voo Teck Chuan

Introduction As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in clinical workflows, clinicians encounter ethical challenges that traditional, principle-based medical ethics education may not adequately address. Empirical evidence on clinicians' experiences with AI-related ethics is limited, constraining curricular improvement.

Attended by 691 delegates from 62 countries, the 16th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) was successfully held in Basel, Switzerland, from 20–22 July 2022. This first-ever hybrid congress in light of the Covid-19 pandemic was hosted by the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel (IBMB) upon the approval of the International Association of Bioethics' (IAB) board of directors in June 2020. This special issue is a collaboration between the IAB and the host of the 16th WCB.

Commentary If it is ever ethically justified to sacrifice animals to benefit humans, it would be to save an identifiable human life. But the interests of animals should be given appropriate weight in xenotransplantation decisions, say two NUS researchers. 12 Sep 2022 06:00AM (Updated: 12 Sep 2022 06:02AM) SINGAPORE: In January this year, David Bennett, a 57-year-old patient in the US, became the first person in the world to be transplanted with the heart of a genetically modified pig.