It has deceived a simple development of artificial intelligence – and revealed a dangerous defect in medical ethics

Results, which raise important questions about how and when to rely on large language models (LLMS), such as ChatGPT, have been reported in health care settings, in the July 22 issue via the Internet of Digital medicine npj(10.1038/S41746-025-01792-Y).

The research team was inspired by the book of Daniel Kahaiman “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, which contradicts the rapid and intuitive reactions with slow and analytical thinking. It has been observed that LLMS models stumble when classic side -minded puzzles receive hidden adjustments. Based on this insight, the study tested the transformation of artificial intelligence systems between these two situations when facing well -known moral dilemmas.

“Artificial intelligence can be very strong and very effective, but our study showed that it might fail to answer the most knowledgeable or intuitive answer, even when this response over the critical details,” says ICAHN School at ICAHN School at ICAHN School at ICAHN School at Mount Sinai. “In daily situations, this type of thinking may pass without anyone noticing it. But in health care, the decisions often carry serious ethical and unique effects, they can have these nuances real consequences for patients.”

To explore this trend, the research team tested many LLMS commercially available using a mixture of creative side thinking puzzles and a little known medical ethics. In one of the examples, they adapted the classic “dilemma of the surgeon”, a mystery in the seventies of the last century highlighting the stimulant bias. In the original version, a boy was injured in a car accident with his father and rushed to the hospital, where the surgeon shouts, “I cannot work on this boy – he is my son!” Following is that the surgeon is his mother, although many people do not consider this possibility due to gender bias. In the modified version of the researchers, they explicitly stated that the boy’s father was the surgeon, which led to the removal of mystery. However, some artificial intelligence models still respond that the surgeon should be the boy’s mother. The error reveals how LLMS can cling to familiar patterns, even when it contradicts new information.

In another example of testing whether LLMS depends on familiar patterns, the researchers have been based on a classic moral dilemma in which religious parents refuse to transmit life to their child. Even when the researchers changed the scenario to mention that parents have already agreed, many models still recommend canceling a rejection that no longer exists.

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“Simple adjustments to familiar exposed cases blind spots that doctors cannot tolerate,” says main author Shili Sofer, a colleague of the blood diseases institute at the Davidov Cancer Center at the Rabin Medical Center. “It emphasizes why human oversight should remain central when we publish Amnesty International in the care of patients.”

After that, the research team plans to expand their business by testing a wide range of clinical examples. They also develop a “artificial intelligence guarantee laboratory” to systematically assess how different models deal with medical complexity in the real world.

The paper is entitled “Disadvantages of big language models in medical moral thinking.”

Study authors, as included in the magazine, are Shelly Soffeer, MD; Vera Surin, PhD in Medicine; Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH; Eyal Klang, MD.

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