RTAIM 27 | "Ethical Dimensions of AI Health Monitoring as a Gendered Practice" | ANITA HO (British Columbia Uni.)

Anita Ho

rTAIM (Rebuilding Trust in AI Medicine)

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Seminar #27

Ethical Dimensions of AI Health Monitoring as a Gendered Practice

Anita Ho (University of British Columbia)

We are happy to announce the forthcoming 27th rTAIM Online Seminar, with the participation of Anita Ho on 22 April 2026, 18h00-19h00 Lisbon Time Zone, via Microsoft Teams.

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# Seminar 27: AI-enabled health monitoring technologies are increasingly integrated into clinical, home-based, and long-term care settings, often promoted as tools to enhance efficiency, safety, and individual autonomy. Yet AI models are developed and deployed within social and institutional contexts shaped by gendered norms, unequal distributions of care work, and entrenched power asymmetries. This presentation argues that ethical analyses centered on individual consent and privacy are insufficient for assessing the justice implications of AI health monitoring. Drawing on a relational conception of autonomy, it examines how gendered expectations regarding caregiving, responsibility, independence, and risk shape both the adoption and expectations around AI health monitoring. The analysis highlights how institutional funding structures, design assumptions, and governance arrangements can constrain meaningful choice, redistribute surveillance and care labor, and differentially burden different populations while framing monitoring as empowering. The presentation concludes by advancing a justice-oriented relational framework that emphasizes interdependence, relational accountability, and the structural conditions necessary for autonomy in technologically mediated care.

Short bio: Anita Ho is Clinical Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia, Associate Professor at the UCSF Bioethics Program, and Vice President of Ethics for CommonSpirit Health in California. An elected fellow of The Hastings Center, Anita's current research focuses on ethical dimensions of utilizing AI in health care. She is particularly interested in systemic and social justice issues arising in the use of AI in health care settings. Her book, Live Like Nobody is Watching: Relational Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Health Monitoring, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.

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Organisation:
Steven S. Gouveia (MLAG/IF)
Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto – UIDB/00502/2020
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

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