Aligning design with collective care refocuses requirements for development toward safety, accountability, and the real networks that deliver care. Until the design of digital technologies matches the accessibility and reliability of the paperbased binder system, the binder remains the more ethical coordination tool for communication and continuity in complex home care.
Since many forms of lifestyle monitoring are “untraditional”—that is to say, they are novel, often experimental, and do not track hard quantifiable biomedical parameters—it is perhaps unsurprising that few options exist to defray costs for older adults and their care partners.
Calling something intelligent, even artificially intelligent, ever so subtly implies that it is more than just a thing, more than a tool. And yet, that is precisely what AI is: a tool, a thing.
FDA’s benefit–Risk assessment is an integrated judgment about the meaningfulness of benefit, the acceptability of risk, and the tolerance of uncertainty. But no matter how well clinical evaluations are designed and implemented, some remaining uncertainty about a drug’s benefits and risks is inevitable at the time of a new drug approval decision because of the inherent limitations of clinical trials.
Whereas artificial intelligence and technological innovation continue to be heralded as producing ground-breaking advancements in society, the question of whether they will break free from Western technology’s cultural hegemony remains to be seen.
Opting in to the tech we want and need means being intentional with technology choices and time.
The question is no longer whether children will hear from AI because they already do; the real question is whether what they hear will be framed with care, context, and human intention, or left to the indifferent fluency of an algorithm optimized for prediction, not truth.
The notion that AI, however defined, is a new thing, acting upon us, requesting that we obey its dictates, raises immediate contradictions with the concept of self-governance and human agency, which are the cornerstone of the Enlightenment ideal of humans harnessing rationality and ethics for a common good.
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In the American Southwest, and increasingly around the world, extreme heat creates conditions that are not merely uncomfortable but physiologically dangerous, multiplying the already staggering risks of homelessness.
AI firms have harnessed vast amounts of capital from other technology companies, and they have used it to create a hugely disruptive technology.
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The UN Environment Program has called the prevalence and use of lead “one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in human history.”
Mindell believes that we are on the cusp of an industrial change that will shape not only commerce and industry but also human subjectivity and behavior.
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) enables applications that enhance daily living and foster smooth technology integration into personal routines. The pervasive use of HAR also introduces ethical dilemmas that must be carefully navigated.
The highly dubious practice of “Fake It Till You Make It” resurfaced recently, as it has periodically throughout high-tech’s history, when it was exposed in scandals involving the diagnostics technology company Theranos and the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Rather than reflexively accepting the need to cut budgets, services, and investment, let us take the time to critically examine the logic of austerity.
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