Danton Char, Norman L Downing, Alaa Youssef, Michelle M Mello
{"title":"Ethical Assessment of Generative AI Tools for Clinical Summarization Tasks.","authors":"Danton Char, Norman L Downing, Alaa Youssef, Michelle M Mello","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2657875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2657875","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As healthcare organizations' use of generative AI moves from initial experimentation to scaled deployments, the need to build oversight systems to identify and address ethical challenges assumes greater urgency. Among the AI applications attracting the strongest early interest are clinical summarization tools, which use large language models (LLMs). To assist healthcare organizations weighing adoption of LLMs, we describe an ethical assessment process employed at our healthcare system to identify problems that may affect patient care so problems can be addressed prior to deployment or monitored over time to detect harms. The process uses stakeholder interviewing to explore risks and other concerns arising from integration of AI tools into clinical workflow and identify areas where values and priorities of different stakeholder groups do not align. We describe ethical issues identified in assessments of tools that (1) draft end-of-shift nursing notes and (2) generate clinical notes from conversations between clinicians and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laundering Public Health: Using Autism to Revive Eugenics.","authors":"Nanette Elster, Kayhan Parsi, Art Caplan","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2659519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2659519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions.","authors":"Gabriel John Watts, Ainsley J Newson","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2475015","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2475015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has traditionally focused on efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness. There has long been concern, however, that this is determined by the goals of healthcare providers/payers, not patients. As a result, HTA arguably fails to reflect the overall value of health technologies-including their \"non-clinical\" or \"personal\" utility to patients and their families. The use of genomic testing in clinical care is one domain where this problem is evident, as the personal utility of results is often especially significant. As such, there are growing calls for HTA frameworks to adopt personal utility as a distinct element of value when assessing clinical genomic tests. We agree that personal utility is important to HTA in clinical genomics. However, against a trend toward comprehensive conceptions of personal utility within HTA, we advocate for a restrictive approach to assessing the value of personal utility in the case of clinical genomic testing.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"6-17"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allocation of Treatment Slots in Elective Mental Health Care-Are Waiting Lists the Ethically Most Appropriate Option?","authors":"Thomas Haustein, Ralf J Jox","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2637087","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2637087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"W7-W8"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147357388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Ethics 2.0: Why Frontier AI Demands a New Governance Agenda for Healthcare.","authors":"S Matthew Liao, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2659513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2659513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147823053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camryn Barnett, Matthew Aaron Turner, Medha Somayaji, Kennedy O Onuoha, Joseph J Kotva
{"title":"Losing Caregivers to the Dyad.","authors":"Camryn Barnett, Matthew Aaron Turner, Medha Somayaji, Kennedy O Onuoha, Joseph J Kotva","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2637078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2637078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 4","pages":"75-77"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abortion and Embodiment.","authors":"Laura Hermer","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2457714","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2457714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Each of us is embodied. Our relationships are reinforced and swayed by physiological processes. States that impose unwanted childbirth on women also force them into unwanted bonds of care. While most people who have given birth understand this because they experienced it, this formative experience is alien to cisgender men. Yet the physiological changes that birthing people undergo are points that few commentators on abortion raise. There are several possible reasons for this, including concerns about reifying biological processes that have been used to assert alleged truths about the \"natural\" role of women in society and culture. I discuss the physiological underpinnings of maternal/neonate bonds, the importance of this issue in the abortion debate, and the role it ought to play, while keeping in mind the valid critiques of historical and current appeals to biology as a means of subjugating women socially and culturally.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"3-9"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodiment, Medicalization, and Morality.","authors":"Jessie Hill","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2637103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2637103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 4","pages":"29-31"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manisha Khatiwada, Dana Howard, Tema Krempley, Katherine Walton, Crystal Williams, Abraham David Graber
{"title":"Reasonable to Whom? Rethinking Informed Consent Disclosures in Light of the Research Related Concerns of the Autistic Community.","authors":"Manisha Khatiwada, Dana Howard, Tema Krempley, Katherine Walton, Crystal Williams, Abraham David Graber","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2632012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2632012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information disclosure during the informed consent process presents a dilemma. If too little information is presented, participants are unable to make an informed decision. Exhaustive disclosure is, however, a practical impossibility. In the United States, this dilemma was historically navigated in the research context by requiring that disclosure include enumerated items: the purpose of the research, potential risks, etc. In 2018, federal guidelines were updated to require that disclosure adhere to the reasonable person standard, whereby participants must be given all information that an \"average\" person would want to know. Drawing on the Autistic community's unique concerns regarding research, we argue that, because of its emphasis on the informational wants of the \"average\" person, the reasonable person standard systematically fails to meet the informational needs of (many) people from minoritized populations. We argue for an individualized understanding of the reasonable person standard and provide recommendations for research teams.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147328048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Consent Waivers: A Governance-First Model for Learning Health Systems.","authors":"Y Tony Yang","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2623848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2623848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 3","pages":"87-90"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147437463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}