Ethics in the World of Artificial Intelligence

Across health care, traditional principles of biomedical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice) form a base expectation for the use of new technology that applies equally to the spread of artificial intelligence (AI). These vague principles require expansion of guidelines and incorporation of practically identified challenges to guide development in a way that optimizes patient accessibility, provider use, and outcomes. Taken together, these principles set up the further development of AI in dentistry for positive outcomes and are combined with experience from specialties of medicine and dentistry to illustrate the opportunities and challenges to continue to guide the growth of AI.