The ethics of warfighter participation in the development and testing of AI-driven performance enhancements
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI), combined with emerging neuroscience, stands to enhance national security and warfighter preparedness in an age of global terrorism. An important strand in this development is the creation of AI-driven performance enhancements, including inter alia brain-computer interfaces. An ethical question arises, however, in how the Department of Defense should proceed in testing these experimental enhancements in warfighters. Proposed methods: We propose four innovations surrounding the issues of AI-driven enhancement that will be theoretically and pragmatically useful to DoD medical research policy: 1. Ground AI-driven enhancement in its broader strategic and historical context; 2. Characterize ethical and legal issues in AI-driven enhancement research in warfighters; 3. Innovate in empirical bioethics through the application of critical decision method interviews on ethical decisions around cognitive and AI-driven enhancements; 4. Validation of theory and measurement of ethical decision making surrounding enhancement via scenario-based experiments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 21, 2022
- Source ID
- FA95502110142XX0
Entities
People
- Nicholas G Evans
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Massachusetts Lowell