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- Title
Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Gastroenterology: The Co-pilot or the Captain?
- Authors
Aggarwal, Nishant; Drew, David A.; Parikh, Ravi B.; Guha, Sushovan
- Abstract
Though artificial intelligence (AI) is being widely implemented in gastroenterology (GI) and hepatology and has the potential to be paradigm shifting for clinical practice, its pitfalls must be considered along with its advantages. Currently, although the use of AI is limited in practice to supporting clinical judgment, medicine is rapidly heading toward a global environment where AI will be increasingly autonomous. Broader implementation of AI will require careful ethical considerations, specifically related to bias, privacy, and consent. Widespread use of AI raises concerns related to increasing rates of systematic errors, potentially due to bias introduced in training datasets. We propose that a central repository for collection and analysis for training and validation datasets is essential to overcoming potential biases. Since AI does not have built-in concepts of bias and equality, humans involved in AI development and implementation must ensure its ethical use and development. Moreover, ethical concerns regarding data ownership and health information privacy are likely to emerge, obviating traditional methods of obtaining patient consent that cover all possible uses of patient data. The question of liability in case of adverse events related to use of AI in GI must be addressed among the physician, the healthcare institution, and the AI developer. Though the future of AI in GI is very promising, herein we review the ethical considerations in need of additional guidance informed by community experience and collective expertise.
- Subjects
MACHINE learning; DATA privacy; MEDICAL ethics; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; MORAL development
- Publication
Digestive Diseases & Sciences, 2024, Vol 69, Issue 8, p2727
- ISSN
0163-2116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10620-024-08557-9