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About
Alena Buyx is a leading bioethicist and technology ethics scholar whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, healthcare, and applied ethics. She is best known for her pioneering research into the ethical implications of embodied AI in mental health contexts, with her landmark 2019 paper "Your Robot Therapist Will See You Now" accumulating an impressive 767 citations — a testament to its influence in shaping how researchers, clinicians, and policymakers think about AI-driven therapeutic applications in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Her scholarship spans critical concerns around social robots in dementia care, virtual psychotherapists, and the broader question of digital wellbeing in AI-mediated healthcare settings. Beyond clinical ethics, Buyx has made substantial contributions to the methodology of responsible technology development. Her work on "embedded ethics" — integrating ethical and social science analysis directly into technology innovation processes — offers practical frameworks for interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, ethicists, and healthcare practitioners. She has also examined how engineers' assumptions and imaginaries shape AI design, bringing much-needed scrutiny to often-overlooked dynamics in human-computer interaction. Through rigorous, applied scholarship, Buyx continues to champion proactive, human-centered approaches to navigating the profound ethical challenges posed by healthcare AI.
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