Andrej F. Plesničar

Andrej F. Plesničar
Artificial Intelligence as Continuity and Renewal: Extending Enduring Practices Toward Healthcare Integrity, Fairness, and Future Possibilities

Andrej F. Plesničar

Speakers Day 1
University / Institution

Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia

Representing

Slovenia

Artificial intelligence today is increasingly recognized not as a rupture with the past but as a continuation and transformation of long-standing practices of reasoning and knowledge-making, embodying the principle of “old wine in new bottles.” What was once approached through modest statistical tools and painstaking manual oversight is now reframed through machine learning, algorithmic detection, and the capacity to process complexity at previously unimaginable scales. This transition highlights a crucial philosophical insight: innovation is not the abandonment of what came before, but the reconfiguration of enduring methods into forms that address the intricacies of contemporary life. Nowhere is this more urgent than in healthcare, a domain that intertwines human vulnerability, systemic integrity, and collective trust. Health insurance systems, with their structured operations and susceptibility to irregularities, provide a fertile ground for testing how AI can embody and advance principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability. By enhancing the vigilance long upheld by professionals, AI does not simply automate oversight but deepens the ethical and social dimensions of integrity, translating the pursuit of justice into technological practice. Such developments carry broader implications: they exemplify how AI can serve as both a guardian and a guide, not by erasing tradition, but by reaffirming its relevance within new frameworks of innovation. In doing so, artificial intelligence becomes a tool of continuity, impact, and renewal—transforming the world not by severing its ties to history, but by extending its inherited wisdom into future directions that promise greater equity and resilience.