The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
May 12, 2025
This paper discusses ethics-based strategies for mitigating bias in machine learning models used to predict sepsis onset. The first part discusses how various kinds of bias and their potential synergies can reduce predictive accuracy, especially as t...
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
May 9, 2025
Ambient intelligence systems (AIS) are increasingly deployed to provide persistent, artificially intelligent, monitoring and documentation of healthcare. AIS pose many ethical issues, including risks to the privacy of third parties, pernicious biases...
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Nov 14, 2024
There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current "natural" limit of about 120 years. At the same time, there is an exploding interes...
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Nov 5, 2024
Participation in research is supposed to be voluntary and informed. Yet it is difficult to ensure people are adequately informed about the potential uses of their biological materials when they donate samples for future research. We propose a novel c...
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Sep 17, 2024
Given the need for enforceable guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI) that protect the public and allow for innovation, the U.S. Government recently issued a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights which outlines five principles of safe AI design, us...