Eating rocks: The case for early integration of medical ethics into AI product development By Rebecca Soskin Hicks and Amelia Burke-GarciaJune 27, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/27/medical-ethics-early-integration-ai-health-product-development/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_2MIz4-q4BRs67hHt96z6VX5wj_jwIqJIodpg-SYU4v_W9dT_eI-vJTrEjB0W5Yey8KU4ggeaYsg7Pjv-HdGzTqbG38Q&_hsmi=313371527&utm_content=313371527&utm_source=hs_email You’ve probably noticed that Google recently integrated Gemini, its new large language model, into its search engine. This could someday become a critical tool for people going to Google with health questions, which happens 70,000 times per minute. But in a new First Opinion essay, two authors say that the technology isn’t quite there yet. See: that time Gemini told a user that “geologists recommend eating at least one small rock each day.” There are four fundamental principles of medical ethics — non-maleficence, beneficence, autonomy, and justice — that clinicians and researchers use to make morally sound judgments. AI products that are intended to or may produce health information or medical advice should not be exempt from following these ethical principles, the authors write.