For centuries, in the West, the ethics that have guided the practice of the medical arts have been those of the Hippocratic Oath. In the East, the concept is that a physician should treat patients with care like that of a parent towards his or her children (医者父母心). In short, the physician must do no harm. These ideas seem to be sufficient guidelines in the days of limited technology, but with the explosion of the pharmaceutical industry, genetic studies, computer technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the ethical issues that are raised by the use of these technologies can no longer be simply addressed with those well-accepted dictums.