OPEN SCIENCE AND MODERN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION: ETHICAL REQUIREMENTS AND NEW ETHICAL PROBLEMS

UDC 001.92:60/61

 

Sokolchik Valerya Nikolaevna – Candidate of science (Philosophy), assistant professor, Doctoral Student. Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1/2 Surganova str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus) E-mail: vsokolchik@mail.ru

 

 

Key words: Keywords: open science, ethical principles, LLM, generative artificial intelligence, ethics committee, informed consent, author of the publication.

For citation: Sokolchik V. N. Open science and modern scientific publication: ethical requirements and new ethical problems. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2024, no. 1 (281), pp. 142–148 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-281-27.

Abstract

In this article, the author builds a system of ethical requirements of the scientific community which defines the current classical ethical standards of scientific activity and of the publication. Along with traditional value imperatives, the entire system of scientific ethical principles is considered, including the principles of bioethics, the ethical requirements of open science, specific ethical rules of various directions and fields of scientific activity, as well as principles for using the artificial intelligence. The article focuses on both classic issues related to the signing of informed consent by research participants, confidentiality of data of research subjects, approval of the ethical committees; new “challenges” are also designing in the article, these “challenges” are associated with the using of LLM and generative artificial intelligence in general at scientific research. The author emphasizes the importance of ethical committees review of scientific research submitted with publication, which assess compliance with ethical principles and norms of scientific research, and accents the role of these committees in consultation with researches and in assisting for editorial boards. It is important that ethical committees, which today are not only advisory and expert bodies in the field of medicine, resolve a wide range of issues, including regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in research. Preparing the article the author relied on international research project of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) about the delivering Guide for the ethical committee’s reviewing research with artificial intelligence and data visitation, as well as the results of the initiative project of the Republican Center on Bioethics according to ethical support of using artificial intelligence in science

 

Download

References

  1. UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science (2021). Available at: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/ 48223/pf0000374837_rus (accessed 1 February 2023) (In Russian).
  2. Merton Robert K. “The Normative Structure of Science”. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Chicago, University of Chicago Press Publ., 1997. P. 267–278.
  3. Code of Practice for Research. Promoting good practice and preventing misconduct. Ukrio, Version No. 3.0. Available at: https://doi.org/10.37672/UKRIO.2023.04.codeofpractice (accessed 01.09.2023).
  4. Beauchamp T. L, Childress J. F. Principles of biomedical ethics. Oxford, Oxford University Press Publ., 2019. 512 р.
  5. Sokol'chik V. N., Razuvanov A. I. Hierarchy of Ethical Principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare. Issledovaniya v tsifrovoy ekonomike [Journal of Digital Economy Research], 2023, vol. 1, no. 4, рp. 48–84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24833/14511791-2023-4-48-84 (In Russian).
  6. Dobrovol'noye informirovannoye soglasye [Voluntary informed consent]. Ed. by: A. G. Chuchalin, E. G. Grebenshchikova. Moscow, Veche Publ., 2022, 288 p. (In Russian).
  7. ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. Updated Jan. 2024. Available at: https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf (accessed 31.01.2024).
  8. Conroy J. Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch – but is it any good? Nature, 2023, no. 619, pp. 443–444. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02218-z (accessed 30.01.2024).

11.02.2024