Due to necessary scheduled maintenance, the JMIR Publications website will be unavailable from Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Who will be affected?
Readers: No access to all 28 journals. We recommend accessing our articles via PubMed Central
Authors: No access to the submission form or your user account.
Reviewers: No access to your user account. Please download manuscripts you are reviewing for offline reading before Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 7:00 PM.
Editors: No access to your user account to assign reviewers or make decisions.
Copyeditors: No access to user account. Please download manuscripts you are copyediting before Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 7:00 PM.
Relating to Artificial Intelligence in Spiritual Care
Roos Notermans;
Fransisca Christiane Warmenhoven;
Bauk Wilhelmina Jan Aartsen;
Roos Notermans
ABSTRACT
In response to a recent published Delphi study on AI in spiritual care, this commentary focusses on ways to perceive the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and a human being in the context of spiritual care. The authors explore this relationship by framing it within the philosophy of Martin Buber. Because AI has no lived experience or existential crises of its own, they question whether a truly fulfilling encounter between a human being and an AI model is possible when the relationship is inherently asymmetrical on an existential level.
Citation
Please cite as:
Notermans R, Warmenhoven FC, Aartsen BWJ, Notermans R