Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Surgery
This addresses ethical challenges for surgeons and AI developers, but it is incremental as it applies existing ethical frameworks to a new domain.
The paper examines the application of biomedical ethics principles to AI in surgery, focusing on defining fairness and algorithmic biases, and argues for continuous ethical revisions due to AI's evolving autonomy.
Here we discuss the four key principles of bio-medical ethics from surgical context. We elaborate on the definition of 'fairness' and its implications in AI system design, with taxonomy of algorithmic biases in AI. We discuss the shifts in ethical paradigms as the degree of autonomy in AI systems continue to evolve. We also emphasize the need for continuous revisions of ethics in AI due to evolution and dynamic nature of AI systems and technologies.