Lecture Invitation: Generative AI for Mental Health with Dr Matthew J Dennis

The Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University,
invites you to a public lecture titled:

“Generative AI for Mental Health? Moving Beyond the Ethics of Privacy, Reliability, Responsibility”
A lecture by DR MATTHEW J DENNIS
Assistant Professor, Ethics of Technology
TU Eindhoven

Monday, 12 January 2026
5:00-7:00 PM, Faura AVR

Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is disrupting many domains, including communication, education, and academic research. Recently, it has been proposed that LLMs could be used in healthcare, both for discovering new medical technologies and for patient treatment. Using LLMs and other AI systems in healthcare comes with serious ethical issues. The most challenging of these is privacy, but ethical issues also include the ability of LLMs to generate misleading or unreliable information to healthcare practitioners, or LLMs compromising sensitive medical data. This presentation will begin by examining the key ethical challenges of privacy, reliability, and data sensitivity, showing how these ethical risks can be minimised or mitigated. This will lead to a discussion of the unconsidered ethical challenges of using LLMs in healthcare, focusing on how replacing human expertise with machines affects the well-being of both patients and doctors.

About the Speaker: Matthew J Dennis is an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at TU Eindhoven. His research focuses on how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, challenge our notions of creativity, autonomy, and well-being. He is especially interested in how intercultural perspectives on human flourishing can guide the design of emerging technologies. He was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (2019–21) and an Early Career Innovation Fellow at University of Warwick (2019). He currently co-directs the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies research consortium. He received his Joint Monash-Warwick PhD in 2019.

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