The Environmental Costs of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

Katirai, Amelia

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-024-00295-4

The Environmental Costs of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

Katirai, Amelia

Asian Bioethics Review, 2024, 16, 527-538

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固定URL: https://hdl.handle.net/11094/96461

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タイトル	The Environmental Costs of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
著者	researchmap permalink a_katirai a_katirai ORCID 0000-0002-4698-1479 0000-0002-4698-1479 Scopus Author ID 57827647800 57827647800 著者名 Katirai, Amelia
キーワード等	Artificial intelligence
	AI
	Healthcare
	Environment
	Planetary Health
内容	The version of record of this article, first published in Asian Bioethics Review, is available online at Publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-024-00295-4.
抄録	Healthcare has emerged as a key setting where expectations are rising for the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), encompassing a range of technologies of varying utility and benefit. This paper argues that, even as the development of AI for healthcare has been pushed forward by a range of public and private actors, insufficient attention has been paid to a key contradiction at the center of AI for healthcare: that its pursuit to improve health is necessarily accompanied by environmental costs which pose risks to human and environmental health—costs which are not necessarily directly borne by those benefiting from the technologies. This perspective paper begins by examining the purported promise of AI in healthcare, contrasting this with the environmental costs which arise across the AI lifecycle, to highlight this contradiction inherent in the pursuit of AI. Its advancement—including in healthcare—is often described through deterministic language that presents it as inevitable. Yet, this paper argues that there is need for recognition of the environmental harm which this pursuit can lead to. Given recent initiatives to incorporate stakeholder involvement into decision-making around AI, the paper closes with a call for an expanded conception of stakeholders in AI for healthcare, to include consideration of those who may be indirectly affected by its development and deployment.
出版者	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
収録物名	Asian Bioethics Review
巻(号)	16
ページ	527-538
刊行年月	2024-06-21
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/96461
PISSN	17938759
eISSN	17939453
関連情報 (isIdenticalTo)	DOI (出版社版) https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-024-00295-4
アクセス権	open access
権利情報	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	学術雑誌論文 Journal Article

資源タイプ	学術雑誌論文
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DCTERMS.bibliographicCitation	Asian Bioethics Review. 2024, 16, p. 527-538
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DC.subject	Artificial intelligence
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DCTERMS.abstract	Healthcare has emerged as a key setting where expectations are rising for the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), encompassing a range of technologies of varying utility and benefit. This paper argues that, even as the development of AI for healthcare has been pushed forward by a range of public and private actors, insufficient attention has been paid to a key contradiction at the center of AI for healthcare: that its pursuit to improve health is necessarily accompanied by environmental costs which pose risks to human and environmental health—costs which are not necessarily directly borne by those benefiting from the technologies. This perspective paper begins by examining the purported promise of AI in healthcare, contrasting this with the environmental costs which arise across the AI lifecycle, to highlight this contradiction inherent in the pursuit of AI. Its advancement—including in healthcare—is often described through deterministic language that presents it as inevitable. Yet, this paper argues that there is need for recognition of the environmental harm which this pursuit can lead to. Given recent initiatives to incorporate stakeholder involvement into decision-making around AI, the paper closes with a call for an expanded conception of stakeholders in AI for healthcare, to include consideration of those who may be indirectly affected by its development and deployment.
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