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Building a Decolonized Ethics and Governance Framework for Just and Trustworthy AI in Healthcare

Descrizione del progetto

Per un’IA socialmente giusta nell’assistenza sanitaria

L’uso dell’intelligenza artificiale nell’assistenza sanitaria può aiutare i medici a velocizzare le diagnosi e a personalizzare i trattamenti dei pazienti. Ma può anche discriminare involontariamente i gruppi vulnerabili, creando disuguaglianze in campo sanitario. Sostenuto dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto JustHealth istituirà il primo programma di dottorato nell’UE incentrato sull’integrazione della giustizia sociale nell’IA in ambito sanitario. Svilupperà un quadro etico e di governance decolonizzato su misura per due questioni chiave: il congelamento dell’andatura nelle popolazioni anziane dei paesi occidentali e le cardiopatie reumatiche nelle popolazioni più giovani.

Obiettivo

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has great potential in healthcare, but it also raises deep ethical concerns as it often discriminates vulnerable groups, amplifying systemic inequalities and preventing equitable access to healthcare. Trustworthy AI is not sufficient to avoid this risk. Bias-free AI systems can indeed still be deeply unjust, if they do not embed social justice principles; and the current ethics and governance frameworks that steer the design, development and use of AI tend to perpetuate forms of injustice both at the local and at the global level. Indeed, they mostly neglect the consideration of perspectives and values other the Western ones, especially those from the Global South (Colonialist AI).

JustHealth aims at filling this gap by creating the first doctoral program in the EU and beyond to ensure social justice is adequately considered in the design, development and deployment of AI in healthcare.
By integrating ethical, governance, engineering, clinical, and co-creation expertise, JustHealth will: a) elaborate a robust decolonized ethics and governance framework for AI in healthcare and tailor it for 2 paradigmatic use cases involving vulnerable people: freezing of gait (FOG) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), respectively affecting the older population of Western countries, and the younger population of countries in the Global South; b) test and validate the framework; c) investigate its transferability, also providing insights for sector-specific standards.

The framework will contribute to the deployment of just and trustworthy AI systems that can effectively contribute to just healthcare both at local and global level.

JustHealth will offer to 8 DCs an ambitious doctoral programme and exposure to leading EU, South African and US organizations, inc. not academic ones. The project will thus create a brand-new profile of responsible researchers, with a transdisciplinary expertise, and able to address the complex challenges posed by AI.

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 563 510,16
Indirizzo
VIA CRESCIMBENI 30-32
62100 Macerata
Italia
Regione
Centro (IT) Marche Macerata
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Costo totale
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