{
  "abstract": "Proposals to create AI chatbots or conversational ‘agents’ modelled on real human individuals, including specific bioethics scholars1 in the academic context, or individual patients (or potential future patients) in the medical context,2 have taken off in recent years. This has been accompanied by a lively and sometimes heated discussion about the ethics of creating or deploying such person-emulating chatbots in various contexts, both within and beyond the healthcare domain. Currently debated questions that are relevant to medical ethics and bioethics include:",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Oxford Uehiro Institute, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Cristina Voinea"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark",
        "Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore"
      ],
      "name": "Sebastian Porsdam Mann"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore"
      ],
      "name": "Brian D Earp"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond",
  "uid": "fb2f894f-9cce-5f27-90cd-de69e9e7a3fa"
}