Moral responsibility dilemmas and resolutions of medical artificial intelligence applications
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2025.09.03
- VernacularTitle:医疗人工智能应用的道德责任困境与化解
- Author:
Jie ZHANG
1
Author Information
1. Department of Medicine， Nantong University Xinglin College， Nantong 226236， China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
artificial intelligence;
healthcare;
moral responsibility;
human-machine joint responsibility
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2025;38(9):1111-1118
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The widespread use of artificial intelligence （AI） in the field of healthcare poses dilemmas in the division of moral responsibility. In the traditional concept of moral responsibility， sufficient control and adequate understanding of actions and their possible consequences are the preconditions for taking moral responsibility， which makes only human beings the subjects of moral responsibility. However， in the use of medical AI， human beings do not have enough control over AI and cannot fully understand the consequences of developing and using AI， leading to a dilemma of moral responsibility in medical AI applications. To resolve the responsibility gap in the human-machine relationships， AI can be regarded as a limited moral subject and bear limited moral responsibility. Meanwhile， a kind of human-machine joint responsibility is envisaged， in which the forward-looking moral responsibility should be borne by human beings， and the retrospective moral responsibility can be jointly borne by humans and machines.
