Peter Dabrock's research while affiliated with Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and other places

... First, the reader study shows that physicians' predictions align with those of the AI-DSS. However, performance does not improve (AUC-ROC; 0.6413 vs. 0.6314 for rejection; 0.8072 vs. 0.7778 for graft failure) (21). Even though the system seems promising and outperformed physicians on the tasks, additional questions arise of whether such a system would add any value to clinical decision-making, how it should be implemented, and which chances and concerns are seen by physicians. ...

... Ergebnissen unklar sind, warum sollte gerade unter solchen Umständen hinreichend hohe Sicherheit bezüglich des gesellschaftlichen Werts und der Effektivität von Sicherungsmechanismen gegen Verletzungen der Privatsphäre bestehen? Fragen wie diese mag man daher zum Anlass nehmen, statt der Beschränkung oder Aufgabe von Einwilligungserfordernissen eher den zweiten Ansatz zu verfolgen und die Anpassung und Weiterentwicklung von Einwilligungsprozessen voranzutreiben, welche die Präferenzen der Subjekte kontinuierlich einholen, abbilden und bei Verarbeitungsanfragen umsetzen und dabei in der neuen Realität datenintensiver biomedizinischer Forschung sowohl anwendbar als auch gehaltvoll sind (Hummel et al. 2021b). ...

... iKNOW -a paradigmatic approach to support personalized counseling with digital health 1) Would you like to publish your submitted manuscript as preprint? Please make my preprint PDF available to anyone at any time (recommended). ...

... As this risk-based screening is a relatively new concept to the public, there is uncertainty both in how accurate the results are and a lack of clear understanding on how the results would impact screening behaviour and lives [49]. The concept of flagging a healthy individual in screening programs, especially using genetic data, as high-risk for developing a complex disease is not easy to grasp. ...

... Issues such as the increased platformisation and the datafication of contemporary schools over the past decade connected to "tendencies towards pervasive data extraction and surveillance" (Perrotta et al., 2020) can still be deemed a problem of data infrastructure development, an item in the political agenda or a space for activism, rather than a specific professional concern for teachers. This is well depicted by the very little use of open-source software as key to maintaining data sovereignty (Hummel et al., 2021). Though the educators might work to raise awareness, showing young people and families the problem of data trace and reuse for commercial uses, the social media platforms, as far as the educational platforms used (and maybe imposed) at institutional level, leave little space for the teacher agency. ...

... However, in synthetic biology, what is often produced is a redesign of pre-existing organisms for medical, industrial, environmental, or nutritional purposes (Garner, 2021). In addition, synthetic biology is more focused on basic research into the life process and establishing what the minimum requirements are for making a cell from its basic components (Fernau et al., 2020). Anyway, the A-life and synthetic biology are becoming increasingly interrelated, making it difficult to clearly differentiate between them. ...

... Options for users to control their data in a transparent manner can be an effective way to promote trust in PHM systems and contribute to the compliance and trustworthiness of PHM. Furthermore, in light of the ongoing ethical debate about security, privacy, data ownership [28] and data increasingly being seen as a human right [29], armed forces should closely consider who actually owns a soldiers PHM data, and who can access it and under what circumstances. ...

... At present, all dental AI is not autonomous, but only supportive, allowing to lie all responsibility for using it towards the provider or any other stakeholder (e.g. patient); the final control remains with these human users [52]. Different genders, ages, and ethnicities have dissimilar pathological disorders, anatomical landmarks in their jaws, craniofacial characteristics, growing jaws, occlusions, and tooth eruption dates, to name a few [53,54]. ...

... Decentralization and democratization were common notions in related discussions, including the oligopoly of centralized mega-companies [24] and intelligent energy management systems [25]. Designing a practical data sovereignty governance framework without encumbering the innovation energies of data economies has been an emerging issue in these years [26,27]. Ideally, data sovereignty can be promised to some extent through reciprocal data-sharing on well-designed platforms in data space systems [28]. ...

... These risks have led some organizations to argue for a moratorium of some forms of synthetic biology, for example, in a report by Friends of the Earth and some other NGOs (International Center for Technology Assessment ETC Group, 2012). In the mass media and the scientific debate and in government reports it is often argued that the expanded capabilities to design and create living organisms lead to serious ethical challenges (Braun et al., 2019). One of the more spectacular challenges that is often highlighted and which I focus on here is the risk that terrorists make use of scientific results and technologies from synthetic biology to create dangerous bacteria or viruses. ...