It is too early to know all the ethical implications of the adoption of ChatGPT in healthcare and research. These concerns relate to confidentiality, consent, quality of care, reliability and inequity. Using it could lead to unintended and unwelcome consequences. Incorporating this sophisticated chatbot in patient care and medical research raises a number of ethical concerns.
And it could be used to enrol participants in clinical trials. In other words, it is like having a high-level personal assistant to speed up bureaucratic tasks and increase time for patient interaction.īut it could also assist in more serious medical activities such as triage (choosing which patients can get access to kidney dialysis or intensive care beds), which is critical in settings where resources are limited. Stellenbosch University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA.Įarly adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates, patient letters and letters asking medical insurers to pay for specific expensive medications for patients. He is a member of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Ethics Working Group. Stuart Rennie receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U01MH127704. She has previously received funding for research from the Welcome Trust, EDCTP, IDRC, SAMRC, NRF and WHO. Keymanthri Moodley receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch UniversityĪssociate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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