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. 2023 Oct 16;12(1):399–410. doi: 10.5334/pme.954

Table 2.

Recommended artificial intelligence (AI) ethics teaching content.


MAIN TEACHING RECOMMENDATION DETAILED AI ETHICS TEACHING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS PUBLICATIONS

Ethical challenges and issuesa
  • General ethical problems and challenges (not specified) [43,46,48,50]

  • Informed consent, bias, safety, transparency, patient privacy, and allocation [47,49]

  • Quality assurance, trust, patient values, confidentially, justice, human rights, accountability, over-diagnosis and over-treatment, automation bias, skill erosion, explainability, and information overload [49]

  • Incorrect, absent, or abusive use of AI in medicine [49]

  • Patient-physician relationship [22,42,45]

[22,42,43,45,46,47,48,49,50]

Data protectiona
  • Cyber-security risks [49]

  • Risks for patient data due to the use of AI [22,44,45,47]

  • AI-related data collection, storage, and analysis [51]

[22,44,45,47,49,51]

Liabilitya
  • Liability in case of mistakes due to programming or construction flaws, lack of proper documentation, and user guidance [49]

  • Ethical implications of liability in the clinical context (not specified) [42,44,45,46]

[22,44,45,46,49]

Ethical values and principlesa
  • The potential impact of AI on the principles of medical ethics by Beauchamp and Childress (beneficence, justice, autonomy, and non-maleficence) [22,36,42,44,45,49]

  • Fairness, transparency, and responsibility analogous to beneficence, justice, autonomy, and non-maleficence [22]

  • Empathy as the cornerstone of teaching AI ethics [23]

[22,23,42,44,45,47,49]

aassociated with the use of AI in medicine.