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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare technology
  • Artificial intelligence ethics
  • African philosophy

Background:

  • Debate on balancing AI benefits and risks in healthcare.
  • AI's potential to improve healthcare in resource-constrained African settings.
  • Ethical, legal, ecological, and socioeconomic concerns of AI deployment in Africa.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce Ubuntu, a traditional African ethical philosophy, as a framework for AI in African healthcare.
  • Provide a people-centered, culturally grounded alternative to Western-centric AI models.
  • Address context-specific needs and realities in Africa.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing Ubuntu's five core values: communalism, interdependence, humanism, sharing, and compassion.
  • Analyzing ethical AI guidance across three normative pillars: justice and fairness, solidarity, and sustainability.
  • Identifying risks and proposing culturally resonant strategies for AI in African healthcare.

Main Results:

  • Ubuntu's principles offer a framework for ethically guiding AI development and deployment.
  • Culturally resonant strategies are proposed to mitigate AI-related risks in African healthcare.
  • Ubuntu serves as both a moral compass and a strategic tool for innovation.

Conclusions:

  • Reframing Ubuntu as a strategic tool for structural reform and innovation in AI.
  • Enriching the discourse on decolonizing AI with an African-centered perspective.
  • Ensuring AI solutions are context-sensitive and aligned with Africa's unique needs.