ETHOS: Towards a Modular Ethics Framework for Clinical Multi-Agent Systems

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arXiv:2608.15424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models has enabled the development of clinical multi-agent systems (MAS) capable of integrating multimodal patient data and supporting increasingly complex clinical decision-making. However, the deployment of these systems in real-world healthcare settings raises critical ethical concerns related to safety, fairness, accountability, transparency, and patient trust. While numerous organizations, including the World Health Organization, the National Academy of Medicine, and the FUTURE-AI consortium, have proposed ethical frameworks and governance principles for healthcare AI, these efforts remain largely conceptual. To address this challenge, we present ETHOS (Ethics and Trust through Hierarchical Oversight System), a modular ethics framework designed as a governance meta-agent that can be integrated with any existing multi-agent system without requiring changes to its underlying architecture. ETHOS translates stakeholder-informed ethical requirements into executable runtime oversight through a layered governance approach consisting of deterministic checks, contextual reviews, and a final ethics critic. These components continuously evaluate intermediate reasoning steps and final outputs, enabling the system to identify ethical risks, request revisions, or suppress responses that fail predefined safety and trustworthiness criteria. We demonstrate ETHOS within a hepatology clinical decision-support MAS. Results show that ETHOS improves decision reliability by detecting incomplete, …

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