Responsibility beyond design: Physicians’ requirements for ethical medical AI

Medical AI is increasingly being developed and tested to improve medical diagnosis, prediction and treatment of a wide array of medical conditions. Despite worries about the explainability and accuracy of such medical AI systems, it is reasonable to assume that they will be increasingly implemented...

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Published in:Bioethics Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 162 - 169
Main Authors: Sand, Martin, Durán, Juan Manuel, Jongsma, Karin Rolanda
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2022
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Competence
competencies
Core competencies
Embedding
entrustable professional activities
Ethics
forward‐looking responsibility
Health services
Humans
Implementation
medical AI
Medical conditions
Medical diagnosis
Medical ethics
Medical History Taking
Medical treatment
Morals
Physicians
radiology
responsibility
Special Issue
Special Issue: Promises and Challenges of Medical Ai
Technology
Transparency
medical ethics
responsibility
medical AI
radiology
competencies
entrustable professional activities
forward-looking responsibility
ISSN:0269-9702, 1467-8519, 1467-8519
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Summary:Medical AI is increasingly being developed and tested to improve medical diagnosis, prediction and treatment of a wide array of medical conditions. Despite worries about the explainability and accuracy of such medical AI systems, it is reasonable to assume that they will be increasingly implemented in medical practice. Current ethical debates focus mainly on design requirements and suggest embedding certain values such as transparency, fairness, and explainability in the design of medical AI systems. Aside from concerns about their design, medical AI systems also raise questions with regard to physicians' responsibilities once these technologies are being implemented and used. How do physicians’ responsibilities change with the implementation of medical AI? Which set of competencies do physicians have to learn to responsibly interact with medical AI? In the present article, we will introduce the notion of forward‐looking responsibility and enumerate through this conceptual lens a number of competencies and duties that physicians ought to employ to responsibly utilize medical AI in practice. Those include amongst others understanding the range of reasonable outputs, being aware of own experience and skill decline, and monitoring potential accuracy decline of the AI systems.
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ISSN:0269-9702
1467-8519
1467-8519
DOI:10.1111/bioe.12887