AI ethics on the road to responsible AI plant science and societal welfare

Antoine L Harfouche; Vasiliki Petousi; Wonsup Jung

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.016

AI ethics on the road to responsible AI plant science and societal welfare

Trends Plant Sci. 2024 Feb;29(2):104-107. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.016. Epub 2024 Jan 10.

Authors

Antoine L Harfouche¹, Vasiliki Petousi², Wonsup Jung³

Affiliations

¹ Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo 01100, Italy. Electronic address: aharfouche@unitus.it.
² Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Rethymno 74100, Greece.
³ School of Liberal Studies, Kyungnam University, Changwon-si 51767, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 38199829
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.016

Abstract

The swiftness of artificial intelligence (AI) progress in plant science begets relevant ethical questions with significant scientific and societal implications. Embracing a principled approach to regulation, ethics review and monitoring, and human-centric interpretable informed AI (HIAI), we can begin to navigate our voyage towards ethical and socially responsible AI.

Keywords: AI ethics; ethics review and monitoring; interpretability; regulation; responsibility; trustworthy AI.

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence* / ethics
Plants

Grants and funding

N00000022/European Union Next-Generation EU [Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 Componente 2, Investimento 1.4 – D.D. 1032