Health data and social control (medical power, state power, power of digital users)
Résumé
The ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence can be examined from the perspective of the innovation economy. This is characterized by interactions between companies capable of investing considerable sums, start-ups that invent original solutions, professionals (medical practitioners, care teams) who use them, and patients who benefit from them. These interactions are overturning the way medical decision-making used to be based on the scientific authority of medical practitioners. How can we give stability to the varied power games that characterize AI-assisted healthcare? One of the avenues to be explored is that, in the absence of a new Leviathan (Hobbes, 1651) guaranteeing a single public authority considered all-powerful for knowledge, a remediation path is provided by participative technology codesign practices, including workshops to explore ethical issues in greater depth.