AI
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2025
Evaluating Transformers on the Ethical Question of Euthanasia
We evaluate the ability of transformers to test if they can reliably predict the recom–mendation by a euthanasia commission on whether, given the report of the commission, euthanasia was justified.…
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2024
The Dual Nature of AI in Information Dissemination: Ethical Considerations
Infodemics pose significant dangers to public health and to the societal fabric, as the spread of misinformation can have far-reaching consequences. While artificial intelligence (AI) systems have the potential to…
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Disruptive Technologies and Open Science: How Open Should Open Science Be? A ‘Third Bioethics’ Ethical Framework
This paper investigates the ethical implications of applying open science (OS) practices on disruptive technologies, such as generative AIs. Disruptive technologies, characterized by their scalability and paradigm-shifting nature, have the…
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Large language models at the crossroads of life, death and data in assisted suicide cases
I presented these slides at the Digital Bioethics Symposium organized by Frank Ursin and Sabine Salloch – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. See also: https://renkulab.io/projects/giovanni.spitale/as-case-generation (code…
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SDPI – Synthetic disinformation through politeness and impersonation
OSF repository with details, data and code: https://osf.io/jn349/ The present study investigates the impact of tone and impersonation on the production of synthetic disinformation using OpenAI’s Large Language Models (LLMs)…
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2023
Exploring the role of AI in classifying, analyzing, and generating case reports on assisted suicide cases: feasibility and ethical implications
This paper presents a study on the use of AI models for the classification of case reports on assisted suicide procedures. The database of the five Dutch regional bioethics committees…
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AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is happening during an infodemic, which has been having marked effects on global health. Here, we…