AIMC Topic: Moral Obligations

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Materiality and practicality: a response to - are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?

Journal of medical ethics Jul 23, 2025
In his recent paper Hatherley discusses four reasons given to support mandatory disclosure of the use of machine learning technologies in healthcare, and provides counters to each of these reasons. While I agree with Hatherley's conclusion that such ...
Physicians Moral Obligations Humans Disclosure Machine Learning
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Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?

Journal of medical ethics Jul 23, 2025
It is commonly accepted that clinicians are ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients, and that failure to do so would amount to a moral fault for which clinicians ought to be held accountable. Call thi...
Humans Disclosure Social Responsibility Personal Autonomy Moral Obligations Machine Learning Physicians
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The role of patient outcomes in shaping moral responsibility in AI-supported decision making.

Radiography (London, England : 1995) Apr 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Integrating decision support mechanisms utilising artificial intelligence (AI) into medical radiation practice introduces unique challenges to accountability for patient care outcomes. AI systems, often seen as "black boxes," can obscur...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Cross-Sectional Studies Male Female Adult Moral Obligations Attitude of Health Personnel Decision Making Middle Aged Surveys and Questionnaires
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Medical AI: is trust really the issue?

Journal of medical ethics May 9, 2024
I discuss an influential argument put forward by Hatherley in the Drawing on influential philosophical accounts of interpersonal trust, Hatherley claims that medical artificial intelligence is capable of being reliable, but not trustworthy. Furtherm...
Ethics, Medical Moral Obligations Humans Artificial Intelligence Trust Physician-Patient Relations
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[Deep healing-Comments on the ethical risks and chances of artificial intelligence].

Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) Oct 6, 2023
Hardly any other field of application of artificial intelligence (AI) needs more ethics by design than medicine; however, if a deep integration of ethical principles succeeds there is a chance of "deep healing", for each individual and also for medic...
Wound Healing Moral Obligations Artificial Intelligence Medicine
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Welcoming Robots into the Moral Circle: A Defence of Ethical Behaviourism.

Science and engineering ethics Jun 20, 2019
Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents a theory-'ethical behaviourism'-which holds that robots can have si...
Ethical Theory Behaviorism Moral Obligations Ethical Analysis Robotics Beneficence
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Who Owns My Autonomous Vehicle? Ethics and Responsibility in Artificial and Human Intelligence.

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees Aug 6, 2018
This article investigates both the claims made for, and the dangers or opportunities posed by, the development of (allegedly), aspiring or "would-be" autonomous vehicles and other artificially superintelligent machines. It also examines the dilemmas ...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Ownership Intelligence Bioethical Issues Moral Obligations
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Artificial intelligence and robot responsibilities: innovating beyond rights.

Science and engineering ethics Apr 16, 2014
The enduring innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics offer the promised capacity of computer consciousness, sentience and rationality. The development of these advanced technologies have been considered to merit rights, however these can ...
Moral Obligations Moral Status Consciousness Animals Computers Humans Social Behavior Robotics Human Rights Artificial Intelligence
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Moral Status for Malware! The Difficulty of Defining Advanced Artificial Intelligence.

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees Jul 1, 2021
The suggestion has been made that future advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that passes some consciousness-related criteria should be treated as having moral status, and therefore, humans would have an ethical obligation to consider its well-being...
Humans Moral Obligations Software Artificial Intelligence Moral Status
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[Artificial intelligence, philosophical reflection].

Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere Jan 1, 2019
The use of artificial intelligence and robotics in health care means ethical principles need to be established. Artificial and human intelligence must be implemented in such as way as to complement each other. From humanism to anthropotechnics, the d...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Humanism Delivery of Health Care Moral Obligations Robotics
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