Generative artificial intelligence and ethical considerations in health care: a scoping review and ethics checklist

The widespread use of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (known as ChatGPT) and other emerging technology that is powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has drawn attention to the potential ethical issues they can cause, especially in high-stakes applications such as health care, but ethical discussions have not yet been translated into operationalisable solutions. Furthermore, ongoing ethical discussions often neglect other types of GenAI that have been used to synthesise data (eg, images) for research and practical purposes, which resolve some ethical issues and expose others. We did a scoping review of the ethical discussions on GenAI in health care to comprehensively analyse gaps in the…

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  Wellcome Trust

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  Duke-NUS Medical School

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  European Commission
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  Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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  National Institutes of Health

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  Medical Research Council
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  National Medical Research Council

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  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

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