[Ai's use in health care and informed consent]

The implications of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of human existence compels us to reflect on its ethical relevance. This paper addresses the signification of its use in healthcare for patient informed consent. To this end, it first proposes an understanding of AI, as well as the basis for informed consent. Next, a fundamental question is briefly addressed: the free condition of the human person, subject both of ethics and Law. The conclusion proposed is that a use of AI respectful to the free nature of persons requires understanding it always as a tool in this case, in the service of healthcare. To ensure this is not a hollow assertion, it must be translated into a demystification of AI: It is necessary to consider and use it not as an authentic subject, a substitute for the person, but as a product or human development, taking into account that, ultimately, it is the human being who designs it and decides to use it and how. One measure that can help prevent AI personification is to ensure human intervention already in the early stages of AI system development. Trying to solve the ethical uncertainties posed by AI by requiring human intervention when the AI system is already developed and making decisions in the real life may be little more than a rubber stamp that purports to endorse what it cannot.