[ChatGPT: aid to medical ethics decision making?].

Journal: Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany)
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Physicians have to make countless decisions every day. The medical, ethical and legal aspects are often intertwined and subject to change over time. Involving an ethics committee or arranging an ethical consultation are examples of potential aids to decision making. Whether and how artificial intelligence (AI) and the large language model (LLM) of the company OpenAI (San Francisco, CA, USA), known under the name ChatGPT, can also help and support ethical decision making is increasingly becoming a matter of controversial debate.

Authors

  • Kurt W Schmidt
    Zentrum für Ethik in der Medizin, Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 4, 60431, Frankfurt a. M., Deutschland. kurt.schmidt@ekhn.de.
  • Fabian Lechner
    Institut für Künstliche Intelligenz, Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg, Marburg, Deutschland.