Ethics Lab’s Moseme on questions about implants

Following my talk at the EthicsLab at UCT, Lerato Moseme reflected on one of the discussion questions I raised, and she dug deeper into the topic than we could in the short time available during the talk. Specifically:

“Service Level Agreements are time limited. What is an appropriate timespan for the hardware and software of implants, and who is ultimately responsible for ensuring continued support?”

Moseme wrote it up in a Insights blog post “Debate and Provocations: Who Cleans Up After Failed Implants?”, where she first contextualised SLAs and another concrete case than the one that my short story in the Autonomous Decisions book relates to (retinal implants), and then posed additional questions beyond the four listed in the book’s appendix. With her thesis topic in the area of regulatory aspects for medical devices, there’s plenty to choose from to keep herself busy for a while.