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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
卷 46, 期 3, 页码 205-211出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105586
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- German Research Foundation (DFG, Excellence Cluster 'Machine Learning-New Perspectives for Sciences') [EXC 2064, 390727645, BE5601/4-1]
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) [01GQ1601, 01IS18039A]
In recent years, a plethora of high-profile scientific publications has been reporting about machine learning algorithms outperforming clinicians in medical diagnosis or treatment recommendations. This has spiked interest in deploying relevant algorithms with the aim of enhancing decision-making in healthcare. In this paper, we argue that instead of straightforwardly enhancing the decision-making capabilities of clinicians and healthcare institutions, deploying machines learning algorithms entails trade-offs at the epistemic and the normative level. Whereas involving machine learning might improve the accuracy of medical diagnosis, it comes at the expense of opacity when trying to assess the reliability of given diagnosis. Drawing on literature in social epistemology and moral responsibility, we argue that the uncertainty in question potentially undermines the epistemic authority of clinicians. Furthermore, we elucidate potential pitfalls of involving machine learning in healthcare with respect to paternalism, moral responsibility and fairness. At last, we discuss how the deployment of machine learning algorithms might shift the evidentiary norms of medical diagnosis. In this regard, we hope to lay the grounds for further ethical reflection of the opportunities and pitfalls of machine learning for enhancing decision-making in healthcare.
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