Exploring Ethical Futures of Healthcare AI

With the increasing introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical medicine, ethical issues have been highlighted. For example; how do we navigate wanting both accurate, but complicated, AI models with wanting to explain their inner workings? When clinicians and patients encounter ethical issues, they may reject using AI models, meaning that possible benefits like faster diagnostics or personalized treatments may be lost.
This PhD project aims to investigate the ethical issues that arise with the introduction of AI into healthcare and clinical medicine. Specifically, it will unfold the possible ethical issues that might arise in the future given the current state of AI in this field. By understanding how clinicians and patients understand and engage with the future ethical issues of healthcare AI in practice today, we will understand how to develop and implement AI in healthcare that can be deemed ethically acceptable both now and in the future.