AI Medical Compendium Journal:
AI & society

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Adaptable robots, ethics, and trust: a qualitative and philosophical exploration of the individual experience of trustworthy AI.

AI & society
Much has been written about the need for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), but the underlying meaning of trust and trustworthiness can vary or be used in confusing ways. It is not always clear whether individuals are speaking of a technology'...

A metaphysical account of agency for technology governance.

AI & society
The way in which agency is conceptualised has implications for understanding human-machine interactions and the governance of technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Traditionally, agency is conceptualised as a capacity, defined ...

Blind search and flexible product visions: the sociotechnical shaping of generative music engines.

AI & society
Amidst the surge in AI-oriented commercial ventures, music is a site of intensive efforts to innovate. A number of companies are seeking to apply AI to music production and consumption, and amongst them several are seeking to reinvent the music liste...

Examining the assumptions of AI hiring assessments and their impact on job seekers' autonomy over self-representation.

AI & society
In this paper, we examine the epistemological and ontological assumptions algorithmic hiring assessments make about job seekers' attributes (e.g., competencies, skills, abilities) and the ethical implications of these assumptions. Given that both tra...

Institutionalised distrust and human oversight of artificial intelligence: towards a democratic design of AI governance under the European Union AI Act.

AI & society
Human oversight has become a key mechanism for the governance of artificial intelligence ("AI"). Human overseers are supposed to increase the accuracy and safety of AI systems, uphold human values, and build trust in the technology. Empirical researc...

Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry.

AI & society
Machine vision is one of the main applications of artificial intelligence. In China, the machine vision industry makes up more than a third of the national AI market, and technologies like face recognition, object tracking and automated driving play ...

Beyond ideals: why the (medical) AI industry needs to motivate behavioural change in line with fairness and transparency values, and how it can do it.

AI & society
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly relied upon by clinicians for making diagnostic and treatment decisions, playing an important role in imaging, diagnosis, risk analysis, lifestyle monitoring, and health information management. While resea...

Dismantling AI capitalism: the commons as an alternative to the power concentration of Big Tech.

AI & society
This article discusses the political economy of AI capitalism. It considers AI as a (GPT) and argues we need to investigate the power concentration of Big Tech. AI capitalism is characterised by the commodification of data, data extraction and a con...