Informed Consent Under Ignorance

Villiger, Daniel

doi:10.1080/15265161.2023.2296429

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“…There is currently a debate in medical ethics as to whether the transformative nature of psychedelic-assisted therapy allows for informed consent (at least as it is commonly understood) (cf. Villiger, 2024aVilliger, , 2024b. Jacobs (2023) and Egerton and Capitelli-McMahon (2023) are skeptical.…”

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Transformative Experience

Villiger

2024

Philosophy Compass

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Since its publication in 2014, L. A. Paul's book Transformative Experience has sparked many discussions in philosophy and beyond. Her main argument is that experiences we have not had before can transform us epistemically (i.e., we learn something we could not learn without the experience) and personally (i.e., our point of view changes radically). This has implications for decision theory in particular, but also for other fields. The present paper provides an overview of how transformative experiences are thought to challenge rational choice and how authors have responded to this challenge (with a focus on the epistemic transformation). Furthermore, it also shows how the concept of transformative experience has been fruitful beyond the decision‐theoretical context, with a particular focus on illness, medical treatment, and the ethical issues involved. Finally, the paper presents open questions in the literature on transformative experiences.

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Transformative Experience

Villiger

2024

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AI, Radical Ignorance, and the Institutional Approach to Consent

Steinberg

2024

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More and more, we face AI-based products and services. Using these services often requires our explicit consent, e.g., by agreeing to the services’ Terms and Conditions clause. Current advances introduce the ability of AI to evolve and change its own modus operandi over time in such a way that we cannot know, at the moment of consent, what it is in the future to which we are now agreeing. Therefore, informed consent is impossible regarding certain kinds of AI. Call this the problem of radical ignorance. Interestingly, radical ignorance exists in consent contexts other than AI, where it seems that individuals can provide informed consent. The article argues that radical ignorance can undermine informed consent in some contexts but not others because, under certain institutional, autonomy-protecting conditions, consent can be valid without being (perfectly) informed. By understanding these institutional conditions, we can formulate practical solutions to foster valid, albeit imperfectly informed consent across various decision contexts and within different institutions.

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Informed Consent Under Ignorance

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AI, Radical Ignorance, and the Institutional Approach to Consent

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