Bioethics
May 24, 2021
Health apps, including consumer-oriented fitness apps, have two functions. They are supposed to monitor and promote users' health, the latter by way of being an instance of persuasive technology. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) allows for AI ...
Journal of medical ethics
May 12, 2021
In their article 'Who is afraid of black box algorithms? On the epistemological and ethical basis of trust in medical AI', Durán and Jongsma discuss the epistemic and ethical challenges raised by black box algorithms in medical practice. The opacity ...
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Mar 24, 2021
Artificial Intelligence is the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior. An important impact can be expected from Artificial Intelligence throughout the workflow of radiotherapy (such as automated organ segmentation, treatment pl...
Science and engineering ethics
Mar 17, 2021
Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) are increasingly conceived as applicable tools to be used in aged care. However, the use carries many negative and positive connotations. Negative connotations come forth out of romanticized views of care practices, d...
Medicine, health care, and philosophy
Mar 13, 2021
Machine Learning (ML) is on the rise in medicine, promising improved diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic clinical tools. While these technological innovations are bound to transform health care, they also bring new ethical concerns to the forefron...
Science and engineering ethics
Mar 8, 2021
This study investigates the ethical use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (BD + AI)-using an empirical approach. The paper categorises the current literature and presents a multi-case study of 'on-the-ground' ethical issues th...
Psychiatrische Praxis
Mar 2, 2021
The ethical discourse addresses the following aspects: What do we need ethics for? Man's disposition to morality, natural ethics. Morality as a social norm. Morality to maintain an inhuman, superhuman power structure. Morality as an artifact of the b...
Psychiatrische Praxis
Mar 2, 2021
OBJECTIVE: This paper provides an overview of a range of ethical aspects involved in the use of autonomous, virtual or embodied artificial intelligence (AI) in the care of people with mental health issues.
BMC medical ethics
Feb 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been described as the "fourth industrial revolution" with transformative and global implications, including in healthcare, public health, and global health. AI approaches hold promise for improving health ...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Feb 10, 2021
One-shot anonymous unselfishness in economic games is commonly explained by social preferences, which assume that people care about the monetary pay-offs of others. However, during the last 10 years, research has shown that different types of unselfi...