Complexity management as an ethical challenge for AI-based age tech

Giovanni Rubeis

doi:10.1145/3529190.3534752

Complexity management as an ethical challenge for AI-based age tech

Giovanni Rubeis^*

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Division of Biomedical and Public Health Ethics

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Abstract

Assistive technologies for older adults (age tech) may support individuals in living a mostly independent life in their own home environment for as long as possible. Especially age tech based on artificial intelligence (AI)-applications may enable a personalization of health and care services and facilitate quality of life. These technologies collect and process large amounts of individual data generated in the daily life and home environment of older adults through various sensors, monitor technologies, and smart wearables. Due to their focus on individual data, these technologies may be tools for tailoring health and care services to the individual needs and benefits of older adults. However, AI-based age tech comes with ethical issues linked to complexity management, i.e. the set of technical means and strategies for dealing with complex or ambiguous data, e.g. user characteristics or behavioral data. Algorithmic standardization might thus conflict with the goal of personalization. In this paper, I identify the crucial ethics issues related to AI-based age tech.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '22)
Subtitle of host publication	29 June 2022- 1 July 2022
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	542-544
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9631-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534752
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2022
Event	15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2022 - Corfu, Greece Duration: 29 Jun 2022 → 01 Jul 2022

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Conference	15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2022
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Corfu
Period	29.06.2022 → 01.07.2022

Keywords

artificial intelligence
assistive technology
ethics
gerontechnology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Rubeis, G 2022, Complexity management as an ethical challenge for AI-based age tech. in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '22): 29 June 2022- 1 July 2022. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 542-544, 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2022, Corfu, Greece, 29.06.2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534752

Complexity management as an ethical challenge for AI-based age tech. / Rubeis, Giovanni.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '22): 29 June 2022- 1 July 2022. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. p. 542-544.

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