Ethical design & AI for Health: A structured review and theoretical critique

ABSTRACT:

Emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) not only mediate everyday human practices and engagement with the world, but are also rapidly re-creating new social and economic orders that characterize contemporary global life. The speed at which these changes have occurred, and the lack of adequate response at either the national or global policy level, has inspired renewed interest in the literature on ethics and values in design (E+VID). These “ethics-first” approaches generally focus on clarifying the normative dimensions of design, and outlining strategies to more strongly incorporate ethical decision-making throughout the design process. Only recently, however, has attention been devoted to comparing these approaches on their practical and normative characteristics, and very little attention has been paid to their application in health-related AI. The purpose of this session is to present a review of E+VID approaches that have appeared in the academic literature, underscoring in particular the…