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ArticleScience and engineering ethics2025

AI Ethics beyond Principles: Strengthening the Life-world Perspective.

Stefan Heuser, Jochen Steil, Sabine Salloch

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Stefan HeuserInstitute for Protestant Theology and Religious Education, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Jochen SteilInstitute for Robotics and Process Control, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Sabine SallochHannover Medical School, Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover, Germany. salloch.sabine@mh-hannover.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2987-2684

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Abstract

The search for ethical guidance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially in healthcare and decision support, remains a crucial effort. So far, principles usually serve as the main reference points to achieve ethically correct implementations. Based on reviewing classical criticism of principle-based ethics and taking into account the severity and potentially life-changing relevance of decisions assisted by AI-driven systems, we argue for strengthening a complementary perspective that focuses on the life-world as ensembles of practices which shape people's lives. This perspective focuses on the notion of ethical judgment sensitive to life forms, arguing that principles alone do not guarantee ethicality in a moral world that is rather a joint construction of reality than a matter of mere control. We conclude that it is essential to support and supplement the implementation of moral principles in the development of AI systems for decision-making in healthcare by recognizing the normative relevance of life forms and practices in ethical judgment.

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Artificial IntelligenceDecision MakingDelivery of Health CarePrinciple-Based EthicsHumansJudgmentMoralsArtificial intelligenceEthical principlesEthical theoryEthicsHealth care

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PMID39928281
PMCPMC11811459

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