IE-028 - Onboarding In-Human Colleagues: Post-Humanistic Centered Care

Jaque Ellul, notably once wrote that, “modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization.” Currently this ‘total phenomenon’ has led us to a critical moment of balancing humanism and by extension humanistic person-centered health care with a nearly existential query about what defines us as humans considering the emerging advent of self-automating intelligent AGI systems. This in turn, is causing us in healthcare practice and education to reimagine newer biopsychosocial relational ways of clinical interaction between human dental clinicians and patients with their in/non-human Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Artificial Generalized Intelligence (AGI) systems & future colleagues.

This presentation is based, in part, on Braidotti’s work in post-humanism and how it can inform possible future socio-behavioral clinical practices and communicative actions that are situated between effective altruism, decentralized accelerationism and effective accelerationism. An ethical, professional and behaviorally informed perspective is then posited as a ‘relationship-centered post-humanistic person-centered approach’ to clinical care.
Ultimately, it is essential that we engage dental educators & students in debate about the endless possibilities and limitations of evolving AGI in how clinicians effectively communicate with patients about diagnoses, treatment plans, and oral health prevention and education. This talk then culminates in calling for and in providing examples for student-centered, analytical, critical, and reflective assignments & activities that challenge perceptions of the emerging roles of extended realities (XR), Humanoids, AI, and/or ultimately AGI within clinical practices.