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Artificial intelligence in health care: accountability and safety.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The prospect of patient harm caused by the decisions made by an artificial intelligence-based clinical tool is something to which current practices of accountability and safety worldwide have not yet adjusted. We focus on two aspects of clinical arti...

Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality.

Trends in cognitive sciences
As robots become more autonomous, people will see them as more responsible for wrongdoing. Moral psychology suggests that judgments of robot responsibility will hinge on perceived situational awareness, intentionality, and free will, plus human liken...

Self-Driving Cars and Engineering Ethics: The Need for a System Level Analysis.

Science and engineering ethics
The literature on self-driving cars and ethics continues to grow. Yet much of it focuses on ethical complexities emerging from an individual vehicle. That is an important but insufficient step towards determining how the technology will impact human ...

Attributing Agency to Automated Systems: Reflections on Human-Robot Collaborations and Responsibility-Loci.

Science and engineering ethics
Many ethicists writing about automated systems (e.g. self-driving cars and autonomous weapons systems) attribute agency to these systems. Not only that; they seemingly attribute an autonomous or independent form of agency to these machines. This lead...

Artificial Intelligence and the 'Good Society': the US, EU, and UK approach.

Science and engineering ethics
In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we provide a compar...

Domesticating the Drone: The Demilitarisation of Unmanned Aircraft for Civil Markets.

Science and engineering ethics
Remotely piloted aviation systems (RPAS) or 'drones' are well known for their military applications, but could also be used for a range of non-military applications for state, industrial, commercial and recreational purposes. The technology is advanc...

Examining Physicians' Intentions to Use AI: The Roles of Accountability, Necessity, and Usefulness.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This study explores the under-researched area of how perceived necessity and accountability influence physicians' intention to use AI in healthcare. Conducted across three general hospitals in Taiwan, the research analyzed 398 valid responses from ph...