When Faces Become Health Data: The Limits of AI in Health Ethics
Helena Machado delivers a keynote at the Coding Faces in Medicine Workshop 2026, organized by the Technical University of Munich.
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At the Coding Faces in Medicine Workshop 2026 – Ethics and Agency of Algorithmic Faces in Medicine, Helena Machado explores how AI is transforming the way faces are used in healthcare. Faces are becoming machine-readable health data—shifting from clinical signs to computationally actionable entities. Helena highlights that this transformation doesn’t just raise questions of accuracy, bias, or consent, but reshapes how we define health, identity, and social norms in medicine.
