AI and Society: Tensions and Opportunities

Dr. Christo El Morr is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics, the Health Informatics Certificate

Coordinator, and former Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University; he is also a Research Scientist at North York General Hospital, Toronto.

His research subscribes in an Equity Informatics perspective; it covers Patient-Centered Virtual Care (e.g., chronic disease management, mental health), Global Health Promotion for equity (e.g., equity health promotion), Human Rights Monitoring (e.g., disability rights, bender-based violence), and Equity AI (e.g., patient readmission, disability advocacy).

As a theologian and a poet, his wider intellectual contribution to Social Justice subscribes in a defense of the human person against alienation, be it in the form of infringement of human freedom or dignity in face of irrational powers and exploitation. His intellectual work encompasses work of freedom from oppression (e.g., analysis of exclusive identities, communion and solidarity, freedom, liberation of reason), freedom from exploitation (e.g., analysis of illusions of freedom, political and religious exploitation), and freedom to celebrate life (e.g., poetry).