On the Urgent Need for Accountability and Repair – a talk with Rae Walker
Almost anywhere we practice, nurses and other healers are now challenged to manage the continued expansion of big data and AI in our personal lives, clinical care and the public sphere. These are powerful technologies that may play a role in supporting health and health equity, but they can also cause harm in ways that may be unpredictable and non-transparent. While health professionals adhere to the principle, “first, do no harm,” guidance on how to operationalize this commitment in the context of A.I.-related data work continues to lag behind. This presentation addresses that practice gap by illuminating certain fundamental tensions between goals such as health equity and critical histories of A.I., exploring conditions under which the critical consent of patients and communities might be possible, appraising broader impacts of these technologies beyond individual health outcomes, and finally, discussing possible mechanisms by which informaticists and institutions might engage in accountability and repair of harm caused by A.I. systems.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, learners will be able to:
- Discuss fundamental tensions between critical histories and currently dominant narratives about the origins and functions of artificial intelligence for health and care
- Demonstrate curiosity about how to support conditions in which critical consent, as it relates to A.I. and associated data practices, might be possible for themselves and for persons they work with and for
- Appraise planetary health implications of common forms of A.I. for health and care
- Investigate further approaches for implementing systems of accountability and repair related to in their own A.I.-related practices and scholarship.
May 4, 2022 @ 12ET – link to AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group Page. To register, email: kdudding@uab.edu or galatzan@uab.edu for the ZOOM link.
Nursing Futurities 