A Charter for the Computer Vision and Medical Image Processing Researcher in the AI Era
29 march 2025 version
The researcher commits to:
- Use all possible available means to monitor and ensure personal data confidentiality
- Systematically evaluate the environmental impact of data storage, computing resources, and power consumption required to experimentally develop and evaluate, then to potentially use, the proposed methods, so as to choose the least impacting scientific and methodological approach*
- Avoid, as much as possibly predictable, to develop applications (or methods leading to applications) with an alienating potential for its users** or targeted at non-humanistic endeavours***
- To give oneself the right to not pursue research which would contradict one or several of the above principles
* other problem solving approaches than AI exist, in particular mathematical modelling and explicit problem solutions
** in the sense of lowering the user’s skill level or of preventing them to build up the skill; an example may be given by some of those applications based on generative AI
*** in the sense of not serving genuine and deep mankind interests; an example may be given by applications with commercial endeavours