Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet

Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Neuroethics and AI ethics: a proposal for collaboration
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics. Biogem, Biology and Molecular Genetics Research Institute, Bioethics Unit, Ariano Irpino, AV, Italy. (Bioethics)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3298-7829
2024 (English)In: BMC Neuroscience, E-ISSN 1471-2202, Vol. 25, no 1, article id 41Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The scientific relationship between neuroscience and artificial intelligence is generally acknowledged, and the role that their long history of collaboration has played in advancing both fields is often emphasized. Beyond the important scientific insights provided by their collaborative development, both neuroscience and AI raise a number of ethical issues that are generally explored by neuroethics and AI ethics. Neuroethics and AI ethics have been gaining prominence in the last few decades, and they are typically carried out by different research communities. However, considering the evolving landscape of AI-assisted neurotechnologies and the various conceptual and practical intersections between AI and neuroscience—such as the increasing application of AI in neuroscientific research, the healthcare of neurological and mental diseases, and the use of neuroscientific knowledge as inspiration for AI—some scholars are now calling for a collaborative relationship between these two domains. This article seeks to explore how a collaborative relationship between neuroethics and AI ethics can stimulate theoretical and, ideally, governance efforts. First, we offer some reasons for calling for the collaboration of the ethical reflection on neuroscientific innovations and AI. Next, we explore some dimensions that we think could be enhanced by the cross-fertilization between these two subfields of ethics. We believe that considering the pace and increasing fusion of neuroscience and AI in the development of innovations, broad and underspecified calls for responsibility that do not consider insights from different ethics subfields will only be partially successful in promoting meaningful changes in both research and applications.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
BioMed Central (BMC), 2024. Vol. 25, no 1, article id 41
Keywords [en]
Neuroethics, AI ethics, Culture, Responsible conceptualization, Governance
National Category
Computer Systems Robotics and automation Neurology Ethics Philosophy
Research subject
Artificial Intelligence; Ethics; Neurology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-537265DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00888-7ISI: 001306415900002PubMedID: 39210267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-537265DiVA, id: diva2:1893527
Funder
EU, Horizon Europe, EIC 101071178Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, MMW 2020.0093Uppsala UniversityAvailable from: 2024-08-29 Created: 2024-08-29 Last updated: 2025-02-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(983 kB)70 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 983 kBChecksum SHA-512
c53cf0c185a329bb84596483c1c01c4522dfea362a1f71e12a43d639974b98086c79b844ce80f42fff53b96d1b810f6b10324547213df3191bd464122a2d5def
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMed

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Farisco, Michele
By organisation
Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics
In the same journal
BMC Neuroscience
Computer SystemsRobotics and automationNeurologyEthicsPhilosophy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 70 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 109 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf