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Health Tech for the People (HT4P): A transdisciplinary research initiative focused on artificial intelligence tech
Rachel Rae Walker1, Jess Dillard-Wright1, Ravi Karkar2
1Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; Health Tech for the People (HT4P), Center for Personalized Health Monitoring, Institute of Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Background:
Technologies animated by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning proliferate in nursing's work and health care. Rapidly evolving AI technologies demand ethics and research infrastructure responsive to this dynamic landscape.
Purpose:
We founded Health Tech for the People (HT4P) to develop a critical technology ethics for more accountable, human-centered design of AI technologies.
Methods:
Our HT4P framework, grounded in data feminism and design justice principles, guided projects across two priority areas: reproductive health and aging technologies.
Discussion:
Outcomes of HT4P's first year included an ethics fellowship, five transdisciplinary symposia/workshops, community partnerships and a community-directed technology ethics seminar, and multiple projects-in-progress.
Conclusion:
Nurses have an opportunity to cultivate a radical imagination for more just and careful tech futures. This requires us to develop ethics of technology that puts values in practice by redistributing power, acknowledging the invisible and undervalued labor and resources, and repairing long-standing injustices.
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