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The document discusses the risks of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in research, focusing on ethical challenges and the need for updated ethical guidelines. It highlights issues such as informed consent, transparency, and the necessity for research ethics boards to adapt to AI advancements. The combination of addressing these ethical challenges and revising guidelines is crucial for ensuring responsible and effective AI applications in research.

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The document discusses the risks of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in research, focusing on ethical challenges and the need for updated ethical guidelines. It highlights issues such as informed consent, transparency, and the necessity for research ethics boards to adapt to AI advancements. The combination of addressing these ethical challenges and revising guidelines is crucial for ensuring responsible and effective AI applications in research.

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Research Methods and Statistics: 2024 Assignment 3

Name: Anne Sherin Arokia Gnana Rajesh ID: a1931357

Topic The risks of using artificial intelligence tools in your research.

Theme 1 Ethical Challenges in AI Use for Research

Theme 2 Need for Updated Ethical Guidelines


Bostrom, N. and Yudkowsky, E., 2018. The ethics of artificial intelligence.
New source 1
In Artificial intelligence safety and security (pp. 57-69). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Yu, H., Shen, Z., Miao, C., Leung, C., Lesser, V.R. and Yang, Q., 2018. Building ethics
New source 2
into artificial intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02953.
Theme 1 Evidence 1. "Informed consent is another value that REBs prioritize and will have to be
adapted to AI because new information might have to be disclosed to
participants. Safety and security are always essential to consider.”
(Bouhouita-Guermech et al., 2023, p. 10)
2. “Safety and security are significant concerns for AI and robotics, and their
assessment may rely on end-users’ perspectives.” (Bouhouita-Guermech
et al., 2023, p. 8)
3. “The prospect of AIs with superhuman intelligence and superhuman
abilities presents us with the extraordinary challenge of stating an
algorithm that outputs superethical behavior.” (Bostrom & Yudkowsky
2018, p. 18)
4. “Full transparency may be too overwhelming if the objective is to
persuade a user to follow a time-critical recommendation, but can be
useful as a mechanism to trace the AI decision process afterwards. On the
other hand, not enough transparency may hamper users’ trust in the AI.”
(Yu et al. 2018, p. 6)
5. "The lack of tools makes it harder for REBs to adjust to the new challenges
created by AI." (Bouhouita-Guermech et al., 2023, p. X)
6. “AI systems can make random errors even after extensive training” (Resnik
& Hosseini, 2023, p. 2)

Theme 1: Connection All the sources discuss the ethical risks associated with AI in research such as bias,
to the Topic lack of transparency, data privacy & security concerns and the possibility of
misuse.
Theme 2 Evidence 1. "Guidance should be periodically revised as AI becomes woven into the
fabric of scientific practice (or normalized) and researchers learn about it,
adapt to it, and use it in novel ways."( Resnik & Hosseini, 2024, p. 18)
2. " Not only are they missing clear guidelines to do any kind of standard
assessments on AI in research ethics, but they are also missing clearly
defined roles on their account.” (Bouhouita-Guermech et al., 2023, p. 14)
3. “REBs are fundamentally essential to ensure that research involving
human participants is conducted in compliance with ethics guidelines and
national and international regulations.” (Bouhouita-Guermech et al.,
2023, p. 7)
4. “Sufficiently general AI algorithms may no longer execute in predictable
contexts, requiring new kinds of safety assurance and the engineering of
artificial ethical considerations.” (Bostrom & Yudkowsky 2018, p. 18)
5. “The Adversarial Game Theory may need to be incorporated into future AI
ethical decision frameworks in order to enable AI to preserve the original

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design objectives in the presence of strategic human behaviours.” (Yu et
al. 2018, p. 6)
6. “Based on recent advances in AI governance techniques, it ap pears that
most work focused on developing individual ethical decision frameworks
combining rule-based and example-based approaches to resolving ethical
dilemmas.” (Yu et al. 2018, p. 5)
Theme 2: Connection All the sources highlight the necessity of revising existing ethical guidelines or
to the Topic creating new ones to address the unique challenges AI brings to the research
landscape.
{Theme 1 + Theme 2} The combination of addressing the ethical challenges and updating ethical
Connection to the guidelines is essential for mitigating the risks associated with AI tools in research
Topic to make sure that the AI applications are both responsible and effective. The
original sources provided in the course materials, along with the additional
sources by Bostrom and Yudkowsky (2018) and Yu et al. (2018) highlight the
importance of developing new frameworks and assessments according to the
evolving AI softwares and challenges to align the human goals with AI in a
progressive manner for the humankind.

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