Evans Nicholas G, Selgelid Michael J
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 320, 3401 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA,
Sci Eng Ethics. 2015 Aug;21(4):1065-83. doi: 10.1007/s11948-014-9591-3. Epub 2014 Sep 24.
In this article, we raise ethical concerns about the potential misuse of open-source biology (OSB): biological research and development that progresses through an organisational model of radical openness, deskilling, and innovation. We compare this organisational structure to that of the open-source software model, and detail salient ethical implications of this model. We demonstrate that OSB, in virtue of its commitment to openness, may be resistant to governance attempts.
在本文中,我们对开源生物学(OSB)的潜在滥用提出了伦理方面的担忧:开源生物学是指通过激进开放、去技能化和创新的组织模式推进的生物研究与开发。我们将这种组织结构与开源软件模式进行了比较,并详细阐述了该模式显著的伦理影响。我们证明,开源生物学由于其对开放性的承诺,可能会抵制治理方面的尝试。