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A hybrid bottom-up and top-down approach to machine medical ethics: Theory and data

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posted on 2023-05-22, 18:04 authored by Simon Van RysewykSimon Van Rysewyk, Pontier, M
The perceived weaknesses of philosophical normative theories as machine ethic candidates have led some philosophers to consider combining them into some kind of a hybrid theory. This chapter develops a philosophical machine ethic which integrates “top-down” normative theories (rule-utilitarianism and prima-facie deontological ethics) and “bottom-up” (case-based reasoning) computational structure. This hybrid ethic is tested in a medical machine whose inputoutput function is treated as a simulacrum of professional human ethical action in clinical medicine. In six clinical medical simulations run on the proposed hybrid ethic, the output of the machine matched the respective acts of human medical professionals. Thus, the proposed machine ethic emerges as a successful model of medical ethics, and a platform for further developments.

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Publication title

Machine Medical Ethics

Volume

74

Editors

van Rysewyk, SP and Pontier, M

Pagination

93-110

ISBN

978-3-319-08107-6

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Switzerland

Extent

20

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Copyright 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

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  • Restricted

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