RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Materiality and practicality: a response to - are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP jme-2024-110371
DO 10.1136/jme-2024-110371
A1 Pruski, Michal
YR 2024
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2024/08/30/jme-2024-110371.abstract
AB In his recent paper Hatherley discusses four reasons given to support mandatory disclosure of the use of machine learning technologies in healthcare, and provides counters to each of these reasons. While I agree with Hatherley’s conclusion that such disclosures should not be mandatory (at least not in an upfront fashion), I raise some problems with his counters to the materiality argument. Finally, I raise another potential problem that exists in a democratic society: that even if Hatherley’s (and other authors who share his conclusions) arguments are sound, in a democratic society the simple fact that most people might wish for such disclosures to be made might be an enough compelling reason to make such disclosures mandatory.