Exploring ethical considerations in medical research: Harnessing pre-generated transformers for AI-powered ethics discussions.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: In medical research involving human subjects, ethical review is essential to protect individuals. However, concerns have been raised about variations in ethical review opinions and a decline in review quality. Adequately protecting human subjects requires multifaceted opinions from ethics committee members. Despite the need to increase the number of committee members, resources are limited. To address these challenges, we explored the use of a generative pre- learning transformer, an interactive artificial intelligence (AI) tool, to discuss ethical issues in medical research.

Authors

  • Takuya Mori
  • Takuya Watanabe
    Department of Ethics Support, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Shinji Kosugi
    Department of Ethics Support, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.