AI ethics in computational psychiatry: From the neuroscience of consciousness to the ethics of consciousness

Methods used in artificial intelligence (AI) overlap with methods used in computational psychiatry (CP). Hence, considerations from AI ethics are also relevant to ethical discussions of CP. Ethical issues include, among others, fairness and data ownership and protection. Apart from this, morally rel...

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Published in:Behavioural brain research 2022-02, Vol.420, p.113704, Article 113704
Main Authors: Wiese, Wanja, Friston, Karl J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AI ethics
Artificial Intelligence
Computational psychiatry
Consciousness
Consciousness - ethics
Deep Learning
Ethics of consciousness
Humans
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - classification
Neurosciences
Psychiatry
Schizophrenia
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Summary:Methods used in artificial intelligence (AI) overlap with methods used in computational psychiatry (CP). Hence, considerations from AI ethics are also relevant to ethical discussions of CP. Ethical issues include, among others, fairness and data ownership and protection. Apart from this, morally relevant issues also include potential transformative effects of applications of AI—for instance, with respect to how we conceive of autonomy and privacy. Similarly, successful applications of CP may have transformative effects on how we categorise and classify mental disorders and mental health. Since many mental disorders go along with disturbed conscious experiences, it is desirable that successful applications of CP improve our understanding of disorders involving disruptions in conscious experience. Here, we discuss prospects and pitfalls of transformative effects that CP may have on our understanding of mental disorders. In particular, we examine the concern that even successful applications of CP may fail to take all aspects of disordered conscious experiences into account. •Considerations from AI ethics are also relevant to the ethics of computational psychiatry.•Ethical issues include, among others, fairness and data ownership and protection.•They also include potential transformative effects.•Computational psychiatry may transform conceptions of mental disorders and health.•Disordered conscious experiences may pose a particular challenge.
ISSN:0166-4328
1872-7549
1872-7549
DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113704