Ethical Implications of the Use of Language Analysis Technologies for the Diagnosis and Prediction of Psychiatric Disorders

Alexandre Andrade Loch   ^{1, 2 *} , BPhil, MD, PhD ;   Ana Caroline Lopes-Rocha   ^{1 *} , BSc ;   Anderson Ara   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   João Medrado Gondim   ^{4 *} , BSc ;   Guillermo A Cecchi   ^{5 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Cheryl Mary Corcoran   ^{6 *} , MD ;   Natália Bezerra Mota   ^{7, 8 *} , MD, PhD ;   Felipe C Argolo   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

² Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazilia, Brazil

³ Departamento de Estatística, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

⁴ Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

⁵ IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

⁶ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁷ Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

⁸ Research Department at Motrix Lab, Motrix, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

*all authors contributed equally