| > a case study for AI ethics classes What is unethical about this citizen science project? What is ethical about keeping it only for yourself, and not sharing it with the world? You are saying you have the expertise to build a similar product, but releasing it would mean the worst fear of your community? > people will recklessly apply ML What are the indications that this is a reckless application of ML? > How many people went to this website, uploaded images, were told were ok and didn't follow up? Common sense dictates exactly zero. Their follow up was taking their images and getting an automated second opinion. Either a doctor already deemed them OK, or a doctor deemed them not OK, in which case, they would not rely on a second opinion, to think they are suddenly OK. > How many were told they have cancer and insisted on procedures they didn't need? Again, exactly zero. The app returns probabilities not binary diagnostics. No hospital would do anti-cancer procedures on a patient without cancer, even when they insist, because some website, friend, or religious leader told them so. > The website is totally unaccountable. Good. Or make the good-faith open-source project accountable and liable? That would simply mean shutting it down. No more diagnostics help for low-expertise hospitals: not good at all. > Totally without any of the most basic ethical standards in medicine. List a basic ethical standard in medicine which this project runs afoul of. > basic human rights for patients What right is that? The right not to upload your images to a site of your choosing? I thought human rights include self-determination, and keeping possession of your imaging to do however you see fit. > In the US this would have been shut down by the FDA immediately. But is that a good, ethical thing? Or simply that red tape and authority in US does not allow for such projects? > We should not be celebrating this unethical "science" that doesn't meet even the most basic of scientific standards or ethical standards. You should not talk about ethics or science, when you did not do even a proper evaluation of the work of a fellow scientist. > I can't believe this is getting upvoted here. Awaiting your work on cancer research and ML. Post it here. If devoid of ethical issues, and strongly scientific, it will also be upvoted and celebrated. Or is your major contribution going to be a snipe at someone who actually contributed? |