ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Digital Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1583507
This article is part of the Research TopicEthical and Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: Balancing Innovation and PrivacyView all 9 articles
Ethical AI for Medical Text Generation: Balancing Innovation and Privacy in Public Health
Provisionally accepted- Affiliated Hospital of Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, China
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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical text generation is transforming public health by enhancing clinical documentation, patient education, and decision support. However, the widespread deployment of AI in this domain introduces significant ethical challenges, including fairness, privacy protection, and accountability. Traditional AI-driven medical text generation models often inherit biases from training data, resulting in disparities in healthcare communication across different demographic groups. Moreover, ensuring patient data confidentiality while maintaining transparency in AI-generated content remains a critical concern. Existing approaches either lack robust bias mitigation mechanisms or fail to provide interpretable and privacypreserving outputs, compromising ethical compliance and regulatory adherence. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an innovative framework that combines privacy-preserving AI techniques with interpretable model architectures to achieve ethical compliance in medical text generation. The method employs a hybrid approach that integrates knowledge-based reasoning with deep learning, ensuring both accuracy and transparency. Privacy-enhancing technologies, such as homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation, are incorporated to safeguard sensitive medical data throughout the text generation process. Fairness-aware training protocols are introduced to mitigate biases in generated content and enhance trustworthiness.
Keywords: Medical AI, ethical challenges, Bias mitigation, Text generation, Privacy protection, AI ethics, Healthcare regulation, legal compliance
Received: 26 Feb 2025; Accepted: 23 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Mingpei Liang, Affiliated Hospital of Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, China
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