Challenges of Medical Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Background: The rapid development of the digital world has penetrated various sectors of human life, including the world of health. The emergence of AI innovation has become a real form of technological innovation designed to help humans solve various problems including decision making, providing recommendations, and even providing advice based on processing available data. In the world of medical ethics, AI raises concerns about bias, injustice, data privacy, patient protection, and informed consent. This research aims to identify and analyze the challenges of medical ethics caused by the spread of AI and provide recommendations for medical ethics in the use of AI. Methods: This research uses a qualitative approach through literature analysis by collecting secondary data sourced from scientific journals, books, articles. Result: From this study it can be concluded that the use of AI provides many benefits and provides many challenges. In the world of medical ethics, AI provides its own challenges to answer ethical issues in the future, especially regarding patient data privacy and security, transparency and accountability, bias and fairness. Conclusion: Therefore, it is necessary to design a new strategy to help navigate the transition to AI-based healthcare, create regulations and create clear minimum standards or laws to report the responsibilities of all stakeholders in the event of certain errors in healthcare cases, and design specific methods to integrate ethical standards into the AI design system.
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