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Are researchers being pushed to use artificial intelligence unethically? Can they change this?
First, a warning. Any attendees hoping for practical advice on how to address ethical issues in AI project grants would have been disappointed by the webinar “Ethics and Integrity of AI in Research” organised by the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism earlier this month. And any readers of this journal hoping for the same will feel the same way.
But if attendees were eager to delve deeper into a hot, sensationalized topic, they probably left satisfied, even if they were perhaps not very optimistic. Indeed, while there was none of the pessimistic polemics that often accompany discussions of AI, there was frequent discussion of the societal and systemic factors that may have made the use of AI in research inherently ethically problematic. The central questions posed during the webinar were: Can researchers prevent AI from becoming so problematic? And if so, how? The answers were hesitant.
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