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ETHICAIA 2026
Ethics in Clinical AI Applications 2026

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Ethics in Clinical AI Applications (ETHICAIA 2026)
co-located with the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026)

Bremen, Germany, August 16, 2026.

Edited by

Roland Roller ¹, Karën Fort ², Massimo Esposito ³, Paolo Soda ^4,5

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, F-54000 Nancy, France
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Naples, Italy
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Preface
Roland Roller, Karën Fort, Massimo Esposito, Paolo Soda

Session 1: Morning Session

Assessment of LLM-Based Simulated Virtual Patients in Clinical Simulations of Conversations 1-8
Sofia Martinelli, Daniel Eduardo Taborda, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti
Is It Time for Ethical Boards in Top-Tier Machine-Learning Conferences? A Case-Study on an Interspeech Challenge about Children Suicidability 9-20
Vincent P. Martin
The Invisible Patients: A Systematic Review of Quiet Harms and Intersectional Bias in Clinical Large Language Models 21-32
Hana Mekonen Tamiru, Menore Tekeba
False Consensus in Multi-Agent Clinical AI: Ethical Risks of Collusion and Verifier-Based Defences 33-50
Adeela Bashir, Zia Ush Shamszaman, Zhao Song, The Anh Han

Session 2: Afternoon Session

Talking as a Drug – The Ethics of Administering LLM Conversations as Medical Treatment 51-64
Tim Hallyburton, Rosa E. Martín-Peña
Tensions Between Biomedical Ethics Review and Responsible AI Research at University Hospitals in South America 65-72
Sofia Martinelli, Luciana Benotti, Viviana Cotik, Lorena Etcheverry
Computational Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Comparative Evaluation of LLM-Simulated Expert Personas and Human Clinical Experts 73-100
Marcin Moskalewicz, Anna Sterna, Karolina Drożdż, Kacper Dudzic, Marek Pokropski, Paula Flores

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