AI ethics in computational psychiatry: From the neuroscience of consciousness to the ethics of consciousness
Behavioural Brain Research December 1, 2021 W. Wiese, K. Friston
Artificial intelligence methods used in computational psychiatry raise ethical issues including fairness, data ownership, and privacy. Beyond these, AI applications may transform how we conceive of autonomy and privacy, and computational psychiatry may change how mental disorders are categorized and classified. Since many mental disorders involve disturbed conscious experiences, successful computational psychiatry applications could improve understanding of such disorders. However, even successful applications may fail to account for all aspects of disordered conscious experiences. The authors discuss both prospects and pitfalls of these transformative effects.