Integrating ethics in AI development: a qualitative study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll methods were approved by The Ethics Committee of Northwest and Central Switzerland (EKNZ), under Switzerland’s Human Research ACT (HRA) Art. 51. The methods were carried out in accordance with the relevant HRA guidelines and regulations. After revision, the EKNZ concluded that interviewing AI professionals falls outside the HRA and requires only verbal consent at the beginning of an interview (declaration of no objection: AO_2021-00045). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by University of Basel The Swiss National Research Foundation enabled this work with the National Research Program “Digital Transformation” framework, NRP 77 [project number 187263, Grant No:407740_187263 /1, the recipient: Prof. Bernice Simone Elger]. Die Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG) in Basel provided additional funding to the first author (L.A.O) to complete this publication."