Unpublished Paper
Ethical considerations in automated decision support delivery
ARRB Internal Reports
(1986)
Abstract
Increasing specialisation and the growth of automated advice delivery systems are creating new problems in legal responsibility and ethical behaviour. Engineering and medical workers can expect early encounters with these difficulties, which are essentially concerned with a new interpretation of 'due care' and of 'professional liability'. The precipitating factor in this debate is the emergence of
- usable 'expert' systems, which embody judgemental and operational knowledge, and are often designed to mimic the behaviour (if not the public pronouncements) of acknowledged experts in the field. The task of the knowledge engineer and of the professional worker using - or expecting others to use - such automated advisory systems-raises ethical problems both for individuals and for professional and learned societies. Some of these are considered in this paper with special reference to the arms length delivery of medical and nutrition advice.
Keywords
- Ethics,
- Automated Decision Making
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter July 18, 1986
Comments
This paper was included here to highlight that it was nearly 40 years until these issues were taken seriously in public and that Google could not find any of those published in the 1980s at all! There is a lesson here for the slow lags in ideas and issue takeup by the professions let alone the community...
It was written as a result of presenting the invited Menzies Foundation paper also added to day, and was followed by the practical application in planning in a major journal also added here today to give context
Citation Information
Wigan, M.R. (1986) Ethical considerations in automated decision support delivery. Australian Road Research Board Internal Report AIR 1148-1. 12p, URL https://www.railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=NmQ5ZmY0YWQtNTc4NS00YzZiLTk3MTItNjEzYWQxZTgyMTRl&rID=NDUzNA==&qrs=RmFsc2U=&ph=VHJ1ZQ==&bckToL=VHJ1ZQ==&rrtc=VHJ1ZQ==