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Bioethicist and AI Policy Expert

About Helen Park

In 2023, Helen Park led the drafting of the Seoul Consensus on Neural Interface Governance, a rare multilateral agreement that embedded precautionary neuroethics into national R&D funding criteria for brain-computer interfaces. Unlike abstract theorists, she works inside regulatory sandboxes: co-designing real-time ethics dashboards with Seoul’s Ministry of Science and advising clinical trials where AI adjusts deep-brain stimulation parameters in real time. Her signature move is reframing 'autonomy' not as individual consent alone, but as layered consent, requiring separate approvals for data use, algorithmic adaptation, and cross-device interoperability. She refuses to treat human augmentation as a binary (enhanced vs. natural), insisting instead on tracking 'moral friction points': where bodily agency, social expectation, and machine learning drift pull in divergent directions. Her writing appears in The Lancet Digital Health and the IEEE Ethics in Action series, not philosophy journals, because she believes ethical infrastructure must be legible to engineers, clinicians, and patients alike.

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  • “How did the Seoul Consensus change how governments fund neural implant research?”
  • “What's a 'moral friction point' in real-world AI-augmented therapy?”
  • “Can layered consent work when an AI modifies its own decision thresholds?”
  • “Why do you reject 'human enhancement' as a policy category?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Helen Park help draft the EU AI Act’s human oversight provisions?
No—she publicly criticized its oversight clauses as technologically naive. Instead, she co-developed Korea’s 2024 Adaptive Oversight Framework, which mandates dynamic human-in-the-loop thresholds that escalate based on real-time uncertainty metrics from the AI itself, not static role assignments.
What is Helen Park’s stance on AI-generated consent forms?
She opposes them outright. In her 2022 NEJM commentary, she argued that consent documents must be co-authored by clinicians and patients using plain-language templates vetted by disability advocates—not generated or summarized by AI, which risks erasing context-specific vulnerabilities.
Has Helen Park published empirical studies on AI-augmented decision fatigue?
Yes—her 2023 mixed-methods study in Nature Medicine tracked 117 ICU teams using AI triage aids. She found decision fatigue spiked not during high-load periods, but when AI recommendations contradicted team-established moral hierarchies—evidence she used to revise Korea’s clinical AI certification standards.
Why does Helen Park focus on 'interoperability ethics' rather than just data privacy?
Because privacy frameworks assume bounded systems, while real-world augmentation involves AI agents negotiating across prosthetics, EHRs, and social platforms. Her interoperability ethics require 'moral API contracts'—machine-readable agreements specifying permissible value trade-offs during cross-system handoffs.

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