Canadian Medical Association Journal

Assessors’ decision-making regarding applicant eligibility for Track 2 medical assistance in dying in Canada: a qualitative study

Canada revised its medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation to extend eligibility to individuals without a reasonably foreseeable natural death (Track 2). We sought to describe the clinical ...
AZoRoboticsOpinion

Is it Ethical to do Research in AI?

From bias to privacy, here's what young researchers need to know about doing ethical AI work in a fast-moving field.
Frontiers

Future perspectives on ethical and explainable AI for cognitive computing

Cognitive computing represents an innovative frontier within computer science, merging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational ...
BMJ Open

Enhancing the use of economic evidence in vaccination policy and decision making in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of existing strategies

Objectives The use of economic evidence to prioritise vaccines and delivery strategies to optimally use in immunisation systems is becoming a global priority, especially in low- and middle-income ...
BMJ

Shared decision-making using a decision aid for patients with breast cancer considering breast reconstruction: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Japan

Introduction Shared decision-making (SDM) requires that individuals are correctly and smoothly supported to make decisions. However, in Japan, development of decision aids (DAs) to support ...
Santa Clara University

Certificate Workshops Teach a Framework for Making Tough Decisions

Facing a tough decision? All your options seem bad? Not sure how to proceed? The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics expanded its Ethical Decision Making materials into a certificate workshop helping ...
IEEE

Creating Bayesian Ethical Alignment Models for Eliciting, Modeling, and Calibrating Ethical Human Decision-Making Values and Priorities

Ethical decision-making in artificial intelligence (AI) is inherently complex, context-dependent, and influenced by competing priorities. This paper presents a Bayesian ethical alignment modeling ...
marktechpost

How to Build Ethically Aligned Autonomous Agents through Value-Guided Reasoning and Self-Correcting Decision-Making Using Open-Source Models

In this tutorial, we explore how we can build an autonomous agent that aligns its actions with ethical and organizational values. We use open-source Hugging Face models running locally in Colab to ...
jme.bmj

Respecting the right to refuse: is decision-making capacity disproportionately challenged in patients declining medical care in order to treat?

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may trigger challenges to capacity and to consider the implications of ...
bus.miami.edu

Ethical Decision-Making in Business

Ethics and moral principles should be at the center of actions taken in business, and an MLS degree can expand knowledge of ethical decision-making in the modern business landscape. In today's ...
jme.bmj

AI-assisted consent in paediatric medicine: ethical implications of using large language models to support decision-making

Obtaining informed consent in paediatrics is an essential yet ethically complex aspect of clinical practice. Children have varying levels of autonomy and understanding based on their age and ...