Artificial Doctoring: Therapeutic Relationship in the Evolving AI Health Landscape

Respect for patient autonomy and data privacy are generally accepted as important bioethical values. As industrialized countries embrace expanding forms of personal and health monitoring, questions abound about how artificial intelligence (AI) may alter people’s access to health care services, health information, and therapeutic relationships with professional caregivers. Using a framework of relational autonomy that addresses both people’s capacity to exercise their agency and broader issues of power asymmetry, this presentation explores ethical and relational considerations of the increasing use of predictive analytics and expanding availability of direct-to-consumer AI health monitoring devices.