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From The Embassy of Good Science
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The health of the participants should be the top priority in clinical trials, especially in FIM trials where drugs are tested that potentially pose a high risk to the health of the participants. The case discussed here shows that even when the trial is reviewed and approved by ethical boards, it can end disastrously for the trial participants. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to review the errors made and learn lessons from tragic cases such as the one discussed here. The overview presented by the current article may help us to do so.
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A University of Liverpool investigation determined that a former researcher there fabricated his data +
Revealing, investigating, reporting, and following up fraud can be resource consuming. +
This case is important because deepfake therapy introduces a new form of AI-mediated psychological treatment that could help patients process trauma or grief when traditional therapy methods are insufficient. However, the technology also raises complex ethical questions about emotional manipulation, privacy, and the boundary between reality and simulation. Ensuring careful clinical supervision, informed consent, and strong safeguards is essential to protect patients and maintain trust in emerging AI-based mental health interventions. +
This case is important because AI-driven hiring systems can significantly influence who gets job opportunities. If these systems contain biased data or unfair decision rules, they may reproduce discrimination related to gender, ethnicity, or background. Auditing and monitoring AI recruitment tools helps ensure equal opportunities, fairness, and legal compliance. By identifying hidden biases and improving transparency, organizations can use AI responsibly while maintaining trust in recruitment processes. +
This case is important because online hate speech can promote discrimination, violence, and harm toward vulnerable or minority communities. AI tools help law enforcement monitor large volumes of online content more efficiently and identify potentially harmful messages in real time. However, their use raises important concerns about bias, privacy, and accountability. Ensuring that AI systems are used responsibly and that human judgment remains central is essential for protecting both public safety and fundamental rights. +
This case is important because AI assistants increasingly influence how individuals and families organize daily life, communicate, and make decisions. While these systems offer convenience and support in planning activities and managing information, they also require handling sensitive personal and family data. The shared family context raises additional concerns about privacy, boundaries, and data protection. Responsible design and use of such assistants are essential to maintain trust, personal autonomy, and healthy family interactions. +
This case is important because aging populations create increasing demand for innovative elderly care solutions. AI-powered care robots can support seniors’ independence, improve health monitoring, and reduce loneliness through companionship and communication. At the same time, these technologies raise important questions about privacy, human dignity, and reliance on machines for emotional support. Responsible implementation is necessary to ensure that AI enhances elderly care while protecting the rights and well-being of older adults. +
This case is important because AI-based workplace monitoring can significantly improve productivity, safety, and operational efficiency. By identifying unsafe behaviors, detecting fatigue, and analyzing work processes, organizations can reduce accidents and improve performance. However, constant surveillance raises concerns about worker privacy, fairness, and autonomy. Ensuring that such technologies are used transparently and responsibly is essential to protect employees’ rights while benefiting from AI-driven workplace improvements. +
This use case is important because it demonstrates how AI can improve efficiency, accuracy, and safety in healthcare. By analyzing large volumes of medical images and providing decision support, AI can reduce clinicians’ workload and help detect conditions that might otherwise be missed. In surgery, AI can improve planning and reduce risks by predicting complications. At the same time, it highlights the need for human oversight, ensuring that clinicians remain accountable and capable of interpreting, validating, and explaining AI-generated recommendations. +
This case is important because safety analyses determine whether vehicles with autonomous and assisted driving systems are safe for road users. As automotive companies release frequent software updates through CI/CD pipelines, there is increasing pressure to speed up approval processes. AI-assisted tools can reduce analysis time and support engineers in identifying hazards. However, they also raise concerns about overreliance on automation, potential complacency among safety engineers, and the risk of unsafe software releases if human oversight is reduced. +
ACCELERATION SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS +
This policy brief matters because it operationalizes high-level European research and education policy into actionable tools and services for universities. It helps HEIs navigate complex transformations such as adopting Open Science, reforming research assessment, improving inclusivity, and strengthening institutional governance aligning them with ERA goals. By documenting early experiences and identifying policy gaps, the brief helps shape future EU-level support mechanisms and provides evidence-based recommendations for structural change across the European Higher Education sector. +
Reaching consensus on a commonly accepted definition of AI Fairness has long been a central challenge in AI ethics and governance. There is a broad spectrum of views across society on what the concept of fairness means and how it should best be put to practice.
We begin by exploring how, despite the plurality of understandings about the meaning of fairness, priorities of equality and non-discrimination have come to constitute the broadly accepted core of its application as a practical principle. We focus on how these priorities manifest in the form of equal protection from direct and indirect discrimination and from discriminatory harassment. These elements form ethical and legal criteria based upon which instances of unfair bias and discrimination can be identified and mitigated across the AI project workflow.
We then take a deeper dive into how the different contexts of the AI project lifecycle give rise to different fairness concerns. This allows us to identify several types of AI Fairness (Data Fairness, Application Fairness, Model Design and Development Fairness, Metric-Based Fairness, System Implementation Fairness, and Ecosystem Fairness) that form the basis of a multi-lens approach to bias identification, mitigation, and management. +
<div>AI systems may have transformative and long-term effects on individuals and society. To manage these impacts responsibly and direct the development of AI systems toward optimal public benefit, considerations of AI ethics and governance must be a first priority.</div><div></div> +
Sustainable AI projects are continuously responsive to the transformative effects as well as short-, medium-, and long-term impacts on individuals and society that the design, development, and deployment of AI technologies may have. Projects which centre AI Sustainability ensure that values-led, collaborative, and anticipatory reflection both guide the assessment of potential social and ethical impacts, and steer responsible innovation practices. +
The sustainability of AI systems depends on the capacity of project teams to proceed with a continuous sensitivity to their potential real-world impacts and transformative effects. Stakeholder Impact Assessments (SIAs) are governance mechanisms that enable this kind of responsiveness. They are tools that create a procedure for, and a means of documenting, the collaborative evaluation and reflective anticipation of the possible harms and benefits of AI innovation projects. SIAs are not one-off governance actions. They require project teams to pay continuous attention to the dynamic and changing character of AI production and use and to the shifting conditions of the real-world environments in which AI technologies are embedded. +
Ethics in science requires researchers to pay due attention to the effects on their subject group, including also animals, as well as to wider society and to minimise harmful effects on their research subjects. Therefore, ensuring that research ethics are abided by serves to put science on track to be trustworthy, reproducible and sustainable. In research ethics conflicts of values and interests between stakeholders are identified, analysed – and proposals for solution of such conflicts are described (in empirical research ethics), or are made and argued for (in normative research ethics). The stakeholders involve other researchers, users, research subjects, including animals, funding agencies as well as society at large, including future generations.
Research integrity touches on the ethos of science and is guided by the rules imposed on the research community by itself. As such, research integrity aims at providing a comprehensive framework for scientists as to how to carry out their work within accepted ethical frameworks as well as following good scientific practice. +
APEC Guiding Principles for Research Integrity distils international expectations for research integrity in Asia Pacific and clarifies what researchers and institutions in Asia Pacific need to do to comply. It reduces ambiguity, aligns local practice with international norms, and offers actionable steps that improve transparency, reproducibility, and equitable access. For policy leads, it is a benchmark;for authors and administrators, it is a practical checklist. Published by nan in 2022, it is a credible reference to cite in institutional policies, training, and grant documentation. +
It consider whether research in a personal capacity falls within the scope of a university's complaints procedure. +
Research integrity issues have to be dealt with at an early stage of a researchers career. This tutorial is a useful and fun way to address this topic. +
These are thought provoking examples of roles and responsibilities in the PhD student-supervisor relationship. They are real examples that can be used for reflection for supervisors and students alike, as well as for teaching purposes. +
