[Avodah] technology psak

[Joel Rich]

Comment on a shiur:
I found your medical ethics class regarding CRISPR and IVF et al very
interesting. There’s no doubt in my mind that the micro-halachic issues you
discussed (eg the physical risks from certain interventions) are
particularly important for individual psak today (even retired actuaries
love risk/reward analysis). However, I think the really broader
meta-halachic issues will still be the true drivers of psak even when the
technologies advance (think heart and kidney transplants and positions
taken over the years)

I think these will be resolved based on a combination of meta-halachic
principles (such as, is everything permitted unless there’s a specific
prohibition or vice versa. How much intervention is viewed as partnership
with God and how much is viewed as playing God…..) and what the hamon am
views as “right”. If past is prologue (HT-Willie S), a lot of this will be
influenced by what this society around us decides is reasonable, which of
course gets to the whole question of the delicate dance between general
society, the hamon am, and the poskim.

Interesting times ahead even if we don’t accept AI poskim [image: 🙂]

Comments?

Bsorot tovot

joel rich
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