Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI
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There is debate about what constitutes 'ethical AI' and which ethical requirements, technical standards and best practices are needed for its realization.
“yet there is debate about both what constitutes 'ethical AI' and which ethical requirements, technical standards and best practices are needed for its realization.”
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The Four Concerns section says developers should be guided by standards, best practices and ethical norms, and that its concerns also apply to AI. The Abstract calls for open debate on translating guidelines into policy, but the paper does not specifically say there is debate over what constitutes ‘ethical AI’ or which technical standards and best practices would realize it. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Yuste, R., Goering, S., Arcas, B. A. Y., Bi, G., Carmena, J. M., Carter, A., Fins, J. J., Friesen, P., Gallant, J., Huggins, J. E., Illes, J., Kellmeyer, P., Klein, E., Marblestone, A., Mitchell, C., Parens, E., Pham, M., Rubel, A., Sadato, N., Sullivan, L. S., Teicher, M., Wasserman, D., Wexler, A., Whittaker, M., & Wolpaw, J.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Google (United States) (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Monash University (AU)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- New York University (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- MIT Media Lab (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Hastings Center (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences (JP)
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yuste, Rafael
- Goering, Sara
- ORCID
- Yuste, Rafael
- Goering, Sara
- Arcas, Blaise Agüera y
- Carmena, Jose M.
- Carter, Adrian
- Fins, Joseph J.
- Friesen, Phoebe
- Gallant, Jack
- Huggins, Jane E.
- Illes, Judy
- Kellmeyer, Philipp
- Klein, Eran
- Marblestone, Adam
- Mitchell, Christine
- Parens, Erik
- Pham, Michelle
- Rubel, Alan
- Sadato, Norihiro
- Sullivan, Laura Specker
- Teicher, Mina
- Wasserman, David
- Wexler, Anna
- Whittaker, Meredith
- Wolpaw, Jonathan
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2017-11
- Volume
- 551
- Issue
- 7679
- Pages
- 159-163
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC8021272
- OpenAlex
- W2767945620
- Cited by
- 678
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 15.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- Funders
- National Eye Institute (P30EY019007, R01EY011787)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Keywords
- neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, ethics, privacy, identity, agency, equality
- MeSH terms
- Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Individuality, Informed Consent, Male, Neurosciences, Parkinson Disease, Neural Networks, Computer, Guidelines as Topic, Privacy, Biomedical Enhancement, Codes of Ethics, Bioengineering, Brain-Computer Interfaces
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