WHO and artificial intelligence: contesting global health futures through foresight
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.The World Health Organization (WHO) primarily uses "weak AI" narratives focusing on practical healthcare applications in its foresight exercises, not "strong AI" narratives about super-intelligence. This approach shapes global health AI policy towards manageable use cases.
Area Of Science
- Health Policy
- Artificial Intelligence Ethics
- Technology Foresight
Background
- The World Health Organization (WHO) engages in foresight exercises to shape its policies on artificial intelligence (AI).
- Understanding the narratives surrounding AI is crucial for analyzing policy development and its implications for global health.
Purpose Of The Study
- To analyze the discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) within the World Health Organization's (WHO) foresight exercises.
- To examine the use of strong and weak AI narratives in shaping WHO's AI policy.
- To understand how WHO strategically constructs and validates AI trajectories in global health.
Main Methods
- Analysis of WHO foresight exercises using the strong and weak AI narrative framework.
- Examination of narrative framing, expert participation, and methodological design.
- Situating the findings within WHO's broader policy discourse on AI in global health.
Main Results
- WHO foresight exercises predominantly feature "weak AI" narratives, emphasizing technical limitations and ethical governance of specific healthcare applications.
- "Strong AI" narratives, focusing on human-like or super-intelligent AI and existential risks, are rarely identified.
- WHO selectively foregrounds certain AI technologies, frames them in isolation, and uses expert input to legitimize its AI policy, guiding discourse towards manageable use cases.
Conclusions
- WHO's foresight exercises strategically construct and validate AI trajectories aligned with its existing priorities, reinforcing its authority.
- The exercises serve as a platform for negotiating competing visions of AI in global health.
- WHO actively shapes the future governance of AI in global health through selective narrative framing and methodological design.
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