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Moral Philosopher and Bioethicist
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In 2017, Albert Baumans co-authored the 'Consent Cascade Framework', a radical rethinking of informed consent in AI-driven clinical trials, arguing that consent must be iterative, context-sensitive, and revocable at any node where algorithmic inference alters diagnostic or therapeutic pathways. Unlike traditional bioethicists who treat autonomy as a one-time signature, Baumans treats it as a dynamic, relational practice shaped by power asymmetries between patients, clinicians, and machine-learning systems. His fieldwork in rural Malawi and urban Berlin revealed how 'ethical scalability' fails when Western consent models are transplanted without attention to epistemic trust, linguistic plurality, or communal decision-making norms. He refuses to separate moral reasoning from material infrastructure, insisting that an ethics committee’s deliberation is ethically compromised if its members lack access to real-time data on algorithmic bias in the hospital’s triage software. Baumans writes in dense, precise prose but speaks in slow, deliberate cadence, always pausing after questions to let silence do ethical work.
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- “How would you redesign informed consent for a CRISPR trial using predictive AI risk modeling?”
- “What moral weight should we assign to a patient’s refusal of an AI-generated diagnosis when it contradicts their lived bodily knowledge?”
- “Can a neural implant that modulates empathy be ethically justified—even if it reduces aggression in incarcerated populations?”
- “When does algorithmic 'care optimization' cross into moral deskilling of clinicians?”