Ask not what AI can do for art... but what art can do for AI

What Can AI Do for Ethics?

Computer technology is increasingly bringing information which was previously the preserve of experts into people’s homes. We address the question of whether Artificial Intelligence can make accessible, to ordinary individuals, expert help in ethical decision-making. We propose an Ethical Decision Assistant and raise some important issues its design needs to address. There is a necessary role f...

Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary’s perspective)

Ask not what your REB can do for you; ask what you can do for your REB.

Research ethics boards (REBs) are perhaps the most unloved component of the research endeavour. In this issue of Canadian Family Physician, Kotecha and colleagues (page 1165)1 join a chorus of voices decrying current governance of research by institutional REBs. In their article they describe the experiences of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network in securing ethics approval....

“ What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence ? ” FCA 4 AI

Preface Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing involving learning, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering, as well as information r...

Ask not what personalized medicine can do for you--ask what you can do for personalized medicine.

BACKGROUND Personalized medicine (PM) aims to offer tailored health care to individuals on the basis of their genetic profile. This paper explores the types of behaviors and practices that citizens are expected to adopt under PM, examines whether such expectations are realistic, and proposes strategies that could support citizens in the adoption of these behaviors. METHODS Recent reports from...