Revolutionizing Research Ethics and Regulatory Systems for Clinical Trials Through the Integration of an Artificial Intelligence Ethics Review Decision-Making Model

Francis Kombe of EthiXPERT NPC in South Africa will develop an AI-based platform to support African research ethics committees and clinical trial decision-making. It will build on their cloud-based, online review system RHInnO Ethics. This system is currently used to manage the entire ethics review cycle, including protocol submission and review, approval, and follow-up, with the goal of shortening the review timeline, enhancing review quality, and speeding the discovery of life-saving public health interventions. They will consult with relevant stakeholders to identify elements of ethics review that could benefit from AI. They will then identify the required structured and unstructured data, use this data to train a model based on GPT-4, and integrate the model into their existing review system. They will evaluate the new platform, comparing it with and without the AI element and assessing results from current users, including decision quality and timeliness.