RT Article
T1 Health Care, Capabilities, and AI Assistive Technologies
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 13
IS 2
SP 181
OP 190
A1 Coeckelbergh, Mark
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785695584
AB Scenarios involving the introduction of artificially intelligent (AI) assistive technologies in health care practices raise several ethical issues. In this paper, I discuss four objections to introducing AI assistive technologies in health care practices as replacements of human care. I analyse them as demands for felt care, good care, private care, and real care. I argue that although these objections cannot stand as good reasons for a general and a priori rejection of AI assistive technologies as such or as replacements of human care, they demand us to clarify what is at stake, to develop more comprehensive criteria for good care, and to rethink existing practices of care. In response to these challenges, I propose a (modified) capabilities approach to care and emphasize the inherent social dimension of care. I also discuss the demand for real care by introducing the ‘Care Experience Machine’ thought experiment. I conclude that if we set the standards of care too high when evaluating the introduction of AI assistive technologies in health care, we have to reject many of our existing, low-tech health care practices.
K1 Robots
K1 Assistive technology
K1 Ai
K1 Good life ethics
K1 Capabilities
K1 Health Care
DO 10.1007/s10677-009-9186-2