Attempt to level the quality of research ethics review with artificial intelligence

Project Gist

Protecting the welfare and human rights of research subjects by making full use of artificial intelligence.

Keywords

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, research ethics, ethical review

Background and Purpose

Ethics committees exist to protect the welfare and human rights of research subjects from research. However, in recent years in Japan, the proliferation of ethics committees and the declining quality of ethical reviews have become major national issues. Therefore, in this research, in order to thoroughly enumerate ethical points, we will develop processing technology using artificial intelligence that comprehensively analyzes all documents related to research, such as research protocol. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of ethical reviews in Japan using the ethical review AI developed in this project.

Project Achievements

With the support of SPIRITS, we were able to sign a contract with a company and launch a research and development team specializing in natural language processing. In these industry-academia teams, development technology and academic knowledge were fused, and the predecessor of language processing technology specialized for original research was developed. In addition, various issues were discovered throughout the development.

Future Prospects

In this year’s SPIRITS, we formed a development team and discovered various complex issues when conducting analysis from an ethical viewpoint of research ethics using artificial intelligence. In the future, I would like to focus on the development of program technology for solving problems and the development of a system that can withstand thousands of types of actual research, and proceed with development to a level that can be implemented in society.

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Principal Investigator