Maria Hedlund

AI and epigenetic responsibility

AI och epigenetiskt ansvar

Summary, in English

This chapter discusses implications for epigenetic responsibility that the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the analysis of epigenetics gives rise to. AI technology has a capacity to see patterns in big data sets and can help improve accuracy in epigenetic based diagnostics, prognostics, and therapy. However, characteristics of AI systems such as their black-box character, and their ability to act autonomously and to improve over time without any direct involvement of humans, have repercussions for responsibility ascription. In the context of AI-based epigenetic analysis in the clinic, questions of epigenetic responsibility are interwoven with responsibility issues connected with AI in several ways that increase both individual and collective forward-looking responsibilities. This chapter illustrates the particular aspect of how health care professionals will have to take on certain forward-looking responsibilities to handle the relation to AI assisted epigenetic analysis and the patient.

• Författare: Maria Hedlund
• Redaktör: Emma Moormann; Anna Smajdor; Daniela Cutas
• Avdelning/ar: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
• Publiceringsår: 2024-01-25
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 110-128
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Epigenetics and responsibility : Ethical perspectives
• Länkar: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9827046.10
• Dokumenttyp: Del av eller Kapitel i bok
• Förlag: Bristol University Press
• Ämne: Philosophy
• Nyckelord: epigenetic responsibility, forward-looking responsibility, individual responsibility, collective responsibility, artificial intelligence (AI), AI-based epigenetic analysis
• Aktiv: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 978-1-5292-2542-6; ISBN: 978-1-5292-2543-3