This workstream focuses on the development and use of AI technology and its impacts on the health and long-term care sectors, on health and care professionals, patients and users of care services (e.g. people living with disabilities, special educational needs, cognitive conditions and frailty).
Workstreams include collaborations with the UK, US and Canadian long-term care sectors to understand what the ‘responsible use of AI in long-term care’ entails, and to advice policy makers and practitioners to leverage AI while protection values of caregiving. We are building an AI powered platform to support family caregivers with advice and information, while gathering knowledge around the ethical considerations of such tools.
Another workstream collaborates with the ‘Weval’ platform to evaluate the positive and negative impacts on AI technology on the mental health. The primary goal is to bridge the gap between ethical theory and technical implementation by designing and validating evaluation artifacts in areas critical to both CIP's mission and Oxford's departmental focus.
AI tools and their use raise many ethical issues, some of which directly relate to values like privacy and non-discrimination and others to wider social and political considerations.
Working in this research area
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Dr Caroline Green is the Institute’s Director of Research and Head of Public Engagement, leading the Institute's Accelerator Fellowship Programme. Caroline's research focuses on AI and human rights, specifically in the fields of health and social care.
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Emma Curran is a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Hertford College. Emma works in normative ethics, practical ethics, and metaphysics. Her most recent work has centred around three themes: the nature of our moral reasons to bring about worse worlds; the conceptualisation, aggregation, and distribution of risk; and our obligations to far-future people.
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The Future of Health and Social Care is a project of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme. You can find out more about the project and achievements by following this link.
Media
- Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, cited in the Nature article, Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
- Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green cited in the Focus Plus article, „Immer mehr sind besorgt über die Schäden, die wir bereits sehen“
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