为老年人提供公平的语音技术:呼吁优先考虑低资源语言
Catherine Diaz-Asper1,2, Mahederemariam Dagne1, Patricia C Heyn1
1Center for Optimal Aging, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA.
The Gerontologist
|December 29, 2025
概括
人工智能 (AI) 语音工具可以帮助老年人,但大多数只有英语. 以低资源语言开发人工智能对于所有老年人平等获得医疗保健和诊断至关重要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 人工智能的人工智能
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
背景情况:
- 人工智能 (AI) 语音技术为老年人的健康和福祉提供了有希望的非侵入性解决方案,增强了社会参与,日常援助和疾病诊断.
- 目前的人工智能开发主要使用英语数据集,为全球超过10亿非英语老年人创造了重大的语言障碍.
- 这种排斥限制了对人工智能创新的访问,可能导致诊断延迟,护理质量下降,并使全球大量人口的医疗保健差异恶化.
研究的目的:
- 突出 AI 医疗保健应用程序的低资源语言语音数据集的迫切需要.
- 在创建数据集时倡导以社区为中心的方法,确保公平的利益分配.
- 促进长期参与和赋权的可持续模式,为老年人开发包容性AI工具.
主要方法:
- 本研究强调对当前挑战进行定性审查和综合,并为未来研究提出框架.
- 专注于社区机构在数据策划和利益共享方面的关键需求.
- 强调建立可持续的,长期参与数据收集和AI模型开发的战略的重要性.
主要成果:
- 完全依赖英语数据集将非英语老年人边缘化,限制他们获得有益的AI医疗技术.
- 人工智能缺乏语言包容性,导致诊断延迟,并加剧现有的医疗保健不平等.
- 社区驱动的方法对于创建公平有效的基于语音的医疗保健工具至关重要.
结论:
- 需要采取紧急行动来整理低资源语言的语音数据集,以确保老年人平等获得人工智能驱动的医疗保健解决方案.
- 优先考虑社区机构,公平的利益分配和可持续参与是开发包容性和赋权人工智能工具的关键.
- 解决人工智能语音技术的语言包容性对于减少医疗保健差异和改善全球老龄化人口的福祉至关重要.
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